Famous quotes containing the words general, grand and/or chapter:
“Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulousalmost of pedanticveracity, that the experienced angler is seen.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (18591927)
“As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering his fellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
—John Donne (c. 15721631)