Bottom Dead Center

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

    “Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than “your humble servant,” at the bottom of a challenge is; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “It is a dead heart.
    It is inside of me.
    It is a stranger
    yet once it was agreeable,
    opening and closing like a clam.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “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)