Flour Type Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words flour, type and/or numbers:

    “I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age
    In th’actes and in fruit of mariage.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”
    —Julie Burchill (b. 1960)

    “Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
    Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
    My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
    Her classics registered a little flat!
    I rose, and venomously spat.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)