Bare Action

Famous quotes containing the words bare and/or action:

“But Maine, perhaps, will soon be where Massachusetts is. A good part of her territory is already as bare and commonplace as much of our neighborhood, and her villages generally are not so well shaded as ours.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltz—before the play starts—imagines it is going to be....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)