Fat Morning Buzz

Famous quotes containing the words fat, morning and/or buzz:

    “The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
    —Anonymous.

    A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)

    “Poor tired Tim! It’s sad for him
    He lags the long bright morning through,
    Ever so tired of nothing to do;”
    —Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)

    “Piece by piece I seem
    to re-enter the world: I first began
    a small, fixed dot, still see
    that old myself, a dark-blue thumbtack
    pushed into the scene,
    a hard little head protruding
    from the pointillist’s buzz and bloom.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)