Coast Main Line

Famous quotes containing the words main line, coast, main and/or line:

    “The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “How happy is the sailor’s life,
    From coast to coast to roam;
    In every port he finds a wife,
    In every land a home.”
    —Isaac Bickerstaffe (c. 1735–1812)

    “My main wish is to get my books into other people’s rooms, and to keep other people’s books out of mine.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
    Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
    And spaced by many years, each line an act
    Through which few labor, which no men retract.
    This passion is the scholar’s heritage,”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)