Famous quotes containing the words grand, slam and/or final:
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“to slam the door on all the days she’ll stay the same
and never ask why and never think who to ask,
to slam the door and rip off her orange blouse.
Father, father, I wish I were dead.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)