Irish Permanent Building

Famous quotes containing the words irish, permanent and/or building:

    “Concurring hands divide

    flax for damask
    that when bleached by Irish weather
    has the silvered chamois-leather
    water-tightness of a
    skin.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “It’s the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York.”
    —Frank Loesser (1910–1969)

    “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)