Dead Ball Foul

Famous quotes containing the words dead, ball and/or foul:

    “The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
    The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
    The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
    I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
    Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
    Its echo in my heart.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
    Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
    o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with
    golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)