Famous quotes containing the words brittle, transition and/or temperature:
“Weed, moss-weed,
root tangled in sand,
sea-iris, brittle flower.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Some of the taverns on this road, which were particularly dirty, were plainly in a transition state from the camp to the house.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss—a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)