Famous quotes containing the word destroyed:
“No, it wasnt an accident, I didnt say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake. It was a beaut. In the end, somehow granted the time for examination, we shall find that our so-called civilization was gloriously destroyed by a handful of vacuum tubes and transistors. Probably faulty.”
—John Paxton (19111985)
“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
—Joseph Conrad (18571924)
“Laughter not time destroyed my voice
And put that crack in it,
And when the moons pot-bellied
I get a laughing fit....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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