Ernest John Eitel

Famous quotes containing the words ernest, john and/or eitel:

    “For it’s home, dearie, home—it’s home I want to be.
    Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
    O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
    They’re all growing green in the old countrie.”
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    “His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.”
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    “The manuscript lay like a dust-rag on his desk, and Eitel found, as he had found before, that the difficulty of art was that it forced a man back on his life, and each time the task was more difficult and distasteful.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)