Famous quotes containing the words floating and/or man:
“They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“There were times when I felt that I could bear no more. It was the Emergency Ward which almost broke me. I stood one night beside a man who had been caught in a flywheel, and whose body felt like jelly. I wanted him to die quickly, not to go on breathing. Oh, stop breathing. I cant stand it. Die and stop suffering. I cant stand it. I cant.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (18761958)