Long Flights

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or flights:

    When awful darkness and silence reign
    Over the great Gromboolian plain,
    Through the long, long wintry nights;—
    Edward Lear (1812–1888)

    It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)