Famous quotes containing the words net, bit and/or rate:
“Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeatedthrown asidea man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“A slight digression: that bit about my mother was a deliberate lie. In reality, she was a woman of the people, simple and coarse, sordidly dressed in a kind of blouse hanging loose at the waist. I could, of course, have crossed it out, but I purposely leave it there as a sample of one of my essential traits: my light-hearted, inspired lying.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we dont rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)
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