Day Coloured Coin

Famous quotes containing the words day, coloured and/or coin:

    “Lips that sealed up the sense from gnawing time
    Now beg the favor with a graveyard grin.”
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    “All the heavy days are over;
    Leave the body’s coloured pride
    Underneath the grass and clover,
    With the feet laid side by side.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are “prefabricated” in the sense that we don’t coin new ones every time we speak.”
    —David Lodge (b. 1935)