Famous quotes containing the words guardian, sailor and/or moon:
“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, its modern architecture.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Guardian (London, February 20, 1979)
“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I thought to hear him speak
the girl might rise
and make the garden silver,
as the white moon breaks,
Nossis, he cried, a flame.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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