Middle Ring

Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or ring:

    “Now, in my middle age,
    about nineteen in the head I’d say,
    I am rowing, I am rowing....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “But whatever happens, wherever the scene is laid, somebody, somewhere, will quietly set out—somebody has already set out, somebody still rather far away is buying a ticket, is boarding a bus, a ship, a plane, has landed, is walking toward a million photographers, and presently he will ring at my door—a bigger, more respectable, more competent Gradus.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)