Command Entire Period

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

    I, who should command a regiment,
    Do amble amiably here, O God,
    One of the neat ones in your awkward squad.
    Norman Cameron (b. 1905)

    Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
    The entire combustible world in one small room
    As though dried straw, and if we turn about
    The bare chimney is gone black out
    Because the work had finished in that flare.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
    Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863–1938)