Famous quotes containing the words failed, states and/or index:
“Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
“Sean Thornton: I dont get this. Why do we have to have you along. Back in the states Id drive up, honk the horn, a gald come runnin out.
Mary Kate Danaher: Come a runnin. Im no woman to be honked at and come a runnin.”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)
“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
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