Famous quotes containing the words avoid and/or breaking:
“As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)