Famous quotes containing the words cold, opening and/or accident:
“He receives comfort like cold porridge.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The next work of Carlyle will be entitled Bow-Wow, and the title-page will have a motto from the opening chapter of the Koran: There is no error in this Book.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested ... in unskilled labor.... The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (18651932)
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