Famous quotes containing the words comic and/or standing:
“And in a comic mood
In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hilltop.... These were the shrines I visited both summer and winter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)