Living Standard

Famous quotes containing the words living and/or standard:

    “risk is full: every living thing in
    siege: the demand is life, to keep life: the small
    white blacklegged egret, how beautiful, quietly stalks and spears
    the shallows, darts to shore
    to stab—”
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    “The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.”
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)