East Air Force

Famous quotes containing the words east, air and/or force:

    “The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine,
    Tugging at banks, until they seemed
    Bland belly-sounds in somnolent troughs,
    That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine,
    The breath of turgid summer, and
    Heavy with thunder’s rattapallax....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “My dear Kafka,
    When you’ve had five years of it, not five months,
    Five years of an irresistible force meeting an immoveable object right in your belly,
    Then you’ll know about depression.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)