Lead Pipe

Famous quotes containing the words lead and/or pipe:

    “Dance then wherever you may be,
    I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
    And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be
    And I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he.”
    —Sydney Carter (b. 1915)

    “If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)