Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or mop:
“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“No one could begin to mop up this particular mess.
Thunder lay down in the heart.
“My child, I love any vast electrical disturbance.””
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)