Buzzing

Famous quotes containing the word buzzing:

    What is he buzzing in my ears?
    ‘Now that I come to die,
    Do I view the world as a vale of tears?’
    Ah, reverend sir, not I!
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
    Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
    Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
    But nearness to death no nearer to God.
    Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)