Excess Line

Famous quotes containing the words excess and/or line:

    “There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “That’s the down-town frieze,
    Principally the church steeple,
    A black line beside a white line;
    And the stack of the electric plant,
    A black line drawn on flat air.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)