Bottom Dead Center

Famous quotes containing the words bottom, dead and/or center:

    “Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “I think that New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.”
    —Saul Bellow (b. 1915)