Control Stick

Famous quotes containing the words control and/or stick:

“When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

“Does it stick in our minds as a touchstone
Of learning and la politesse?
For while the old place hadn’t much tone,
Two others we know have got less.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)