Command Entire Period

Famous quotes containing the words command, entire and/or period:

    “Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
    In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
    An ancestor was rector there
    Long years ago, a church stands near,
    By the road an ancient cross.
    No marble, no conventional phrase;
    On limestone quarried near the spot
    By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other’s superscriptions.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
    —Ernest Gellner (b. 1925)