Dirty Word

Famous quotes containing the words dirty and/or word:

    “The sky seemed so small that winter day,
    A dirty light on a lifeless world,
    Contracted like a withered stick.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)