Bending Mode

Famous quotes containing the words bending and/or mode:

    “The train rounds, bending to a scream,
    Taking the final level for the dive
    Under the river—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “I have no scheme about it,—no designs on men at all; and, if I had, my mode would be to tempt them with the fruit, and not with the manure. To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives?—and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared, to live more worthily and profitably?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)