Oblong Plan Tower

Famous quotes containing the words oblong, plan and/or tower:

    An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy footprint filled to the brim with quicksilver; like a spatulate hole through which you can see the nether sky. Surrounded, I note, by a diffuse tentacled black dampness where some dull dun dead leaves have stuck. Drowned, I should say, before the puddle had shrunk to its present size.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Max Detweiler: I get a fiendish delight thinking of you as the mother of seven. How do you plan to do it?
    The Baroness: Darling, haven’t you heard of a delightful little thing called boarding school?
    Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

    It is not their bones or hide or tallow that I love most. It is the living spirit of the tree, not its spirit of turpentine, with which I sympathize, and which heals my cuts. It is as immortal as I am, and perchance will go to as high a heaven, there to tower above me still.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)