Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, champions, war and/or pipes:
“Loves boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and its useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (18931930)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most mens reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“It is a war against the pines, the only real Aroostook or Penobscot war.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Because the Muses never knew their pains.
They boast their peasants pipes, but peasants now
Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough;”
—George Crabbe (17541832)