Oil Slick

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or slick:

“As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

“Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)