Bottom Dead Center

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

    “There is something in the breast of almost every man, which at bottom takes offense at the attentions of any other man offered to a woman, the hope of whose nuptial love he himself may have discarded. Fain would a man selfishly appropriate all the hearts which have ever in any way confessed themselves his.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Jesus saw Lazarus.
    Lazarus was likely in heaven,
    as dead as a pear
    and the very same light green color.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
    That all things have their center in their dying....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)