Famous quotes containing the words double, ten and/or day:
“...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said ears when they meant yes and hice when they meant house and school when they meant Eton...”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)
“Theodotus: Caesar: once in ten generations of men, the world gains an immortal book. Caesar: If it did not flatter mankind, the common executioner would burn it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“... you learned to compress almost everything in the first sentence, and the only phrase you needed was plans were made to organize. It took me a day to learn this, and that is all you have to learn in newspaper writing.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)