Famous quotes containing the words hit, run and/or incident:
“Carlyle’s humor is vigorous and titanic, and has more sense in it than the sober philosophy of many another. It is not to be disposed of by laughter and smiles merely; it gets to be too serious for that: only they may laugh who are not hit by it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.”
—Jacki Hanson (b. 1948)
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)