Permanent Status

Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or status:

“The pork sizzles and cries for fish. Luckily for the foolish race, and this particularly foolish generation of trout, the night shut down at last, not a little deepened by the dark side of Ktaadn, which, like a permanent shadow, reared itself from the eastern bank.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)