Long Distance Boomerangs

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or distance:

    “The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can’t hear yourself speak.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “Remember? We sat on a slab of rock.
    From this distance in time,
    it seems the color
    of iris, rotting and turning purpler,

    but it was only
    the usual gray rock”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)