Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, world, trade and/or center:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935)
“Sheathey call him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passersall.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (18461925)
“Freedom-loving people around the world must say ... I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
—W.R. (William Ralph)
“Whenever theres a big war coming on, you should rope off a big field. And on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put em in the center dressed in their underpants and let them fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.”
—Maxwell Anderson (18881959)