Bar Framed Locomotives

Famous quotes containing the words bar, framed and/or locomotives:

    “Even the most incompetent English actor, coming on the stage briefly to announce the presence below of Lord and Lady Ditherege, gives forth a sound so soft and dulcet as almost to be a bar of music. But sometimes that is all there is. The words are lost in the graceful sweep of the notes.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
    In the days of long ago,
    Ranged where the locomotives sing
    And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)