Big Oak Flat

Famous quotes containing the words big, oak and/or flat:

    “That big gun in your hand makes you look grown up—you think! I’ll bet you spend hours posing in front of a mirror holding it, trying to look tough!... You scum!”
    —Richard Brooks (1912–1992)

    “Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “They are not flat surfaces
    Having curved outlines.
    They are round
    Tapering toward the top.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)