Famous quotes containing the words degree, heart and/or block:
“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame,
And a the warld to rest are gane,
The waes o my heart fa in showers frae my ee,
While my gudeman lies sound by me.
Young Jamie loed me weel, and sought me for his bride;”
—Lady Anne Lindsay (17501825)
“No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)