Brown Recluse Bites

Famous quotes containing the words brown, recluse and/or bites:

    The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
    —Olympia Brown (1835–1900)

    The writer is either a practising recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes
    Have lost the light that bites or terrifies.
    There are no swans and swallows any more.
    The people settled for chicken and shut the door.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)