Famous quotes containing the words double and/or stranded:
“Well, I had gone and spoiled it again, made another mistake. A double one in fact. There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Durer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this, with eight stranded whales
to look at;”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)