Famous quotes containing the words odd and/or firing:
“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)