Famous quotes containing the words average, annual and/or flow:
“You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mindwith one thought less, each year.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“Time that scatters hair upon a head
Spreads the ice sheet on the shaven lawn;
Signing an annual permit for the frost....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a mans real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)