Famous quotes containing the words berkeley and/or project:
“Edith: This complete loveliness will fade. And we shall forget what it was like.
Edward: Edith, dont.
Edith: Oh, its bound to. Just a few years and the gilt wears off the gingerbread.
Edward: Darling, answer me one thing truthfully. Have you ever seen gingerbread with gilt on it?
Edith: [laughing] Fool!
Edward: Then the whole argument is disposed of.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890 N1935)
“From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had bitten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.”
—Federal Writers Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)