Famous quotes containing the words big, hurt, blue and/or jays:
“Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into movingvans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
—M.F.K. Fisher (19081992)
“I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestionkeep you from eating, which I liked to do.”
—Septima Clark (18981987)
“Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (18621910)