Famous quotes containing the words hollow, point and/or bullet:
“While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.”
—Allan Cunningham (17841842)
“He left the name, at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
squandering your unquoted mirth,
which keeps the ground, and never soars,
while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
goes like bullet to its mark;
while the solid curse and jeer
never balk the waiting ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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