Foot Gillig Phantoms

Famous quotes containing the words foot and/or phantoms:

    “Whist Partner: Great Caesar’s Ghost. A woman! In the Club.
    Phileas Fogg: My dear, I must ask you to leave these precincts at once. No woman has ever set foot in the Club.
    Aouda: Why not?
    Phileas Fogg: Because that could spell the end of the British Empire.”
    —James Poe (1921–1980)

    “How cold the vacancy
    When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
    First sees reality. The mortal no
    Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)