Famous quotes containing the words defense, strike and/or force:
“From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had bitten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I had to say something
To strike him very weird,
So I yelled out,
“I like Fidel Castro and his beard.””
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and “mangled mind” leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.”
—Elizabeth Drew (1887–1965)
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