Famous quotes containing the words asks and/or terra:
“Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday youll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of a troop one day, every mans face turned toward ya. Lieutenants jump when I growl. Now tomorrow, Ill be glad if the blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)
“Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of ones stomach the separation from terra ... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known ... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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