Famous quotes containing the words door, station and/or wagon:
“Wistfully watching, with wonderful liquid eyes.
And all her weight, all her blood, dripping sack-wise down towards
the earth’s center,
And the live little-one taking in its paw at the door of her belly.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)