Odd Firing

Famous quotes containing the words odd and/or firing:

    “Borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”
    —Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

    “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)