Famous quotes containing the words partial and/or thickness:
“The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial facultiesthat is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight ... nor with madness.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.
There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;
And God will grow no talons at his heels,
Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.”
—Wilfred Owen (18931918)