Famous quotes containing the words detect, electric and/or fields:
“Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Suddenly Im not half the girl
I used to be.
Theres a shadow hanging over me . . .
From me to you out of my electric devil....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.”
—Chinese proverb.