Famous quotes containing the words big, blue and/or deck:
“Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thingdesire.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of variety ... is but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety....”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“The almost universal bareness and smoothness of the landscape were as agreeable as novel, making it so much more like the deck of a vessel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)