Famous quotes containing the word lot:
“I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when lifes hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.”
—Ben Hecht (18931964)
“These was all nice pictures, I reckon, but I didnt somehow seem to take to them, because if ever I was down a little, they always give me the fan-tods. Everybody was sorry she died, because she had laid out a lot more of these pictures to do, and a body could see by what she had done what they had lost. But I reckoned, that with her disposition, she was having a better time in the graveyard.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocencea lot passes you bysimply because your attention is otherwise diverted.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)