Famous quotes containing the words lee, oil and/or company:
“Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
Of the horse-races of long ago at Clarys Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln said
One time at Springfield.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (18691950)
“As artists theyre rot, but as providers theyre oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (18931967)
“We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.”
—Frank Moore Colby (18651925)