Famous quotes containing the words long, island and/or iced:
“It is the human season on this sterile air
Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
I hear a dead mans cry from autumn long since gone.
I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Do you drink champagne yourself?
Mr. Oscar Wilde: Yes; iced champagne is a favourite drink of minestrongly against my doctors orders.
Mr. Edward Carson, QC: Never mind your doctors orders, sir!
Mr. Oscar Wilde: I never do.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)