Perfect Black Body

Famous quotes containing the words perfect, black and/or body:

    “The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The solid and well-defined fir-tops, like sharp and regular spearheads, black against the sky, gave a peculiar, dark, and sombre look to the forest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “If a man’s eye falls
    on any of her limbs first,
    it is stuck on that spot.
    No one at all sees her body whole.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)