Hut Hand Scroll

Famous quotes containing the words hut, hand and/or scroll:

    “There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “I wolde no lenger in the bed abide
    If that I felte his arm over my side,
    Til he hadde maad his raunson unto me;
    Thanne wolde I suffre him do his nicetee.
    And therfore every man this tale I telle:
    Winne whoso may, for al is for to selle;
    With empty hand men may no hawkes lure.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.”
    —Lester Cole, U.S. screenwriter, Nathaniel Curtis, and Frank Lloyd. Prince Tatsugi (Frank Puglia)