Peter Short Stories

Famous quotes containing the words peter, short and/or stories:

    “To refer is not to assert, though you refer in order to go on to assert.”
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

    “And were an epitaph to be my story
    I’d have a short one ready for my own.
    I would have written of me on my stone:
    I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “the tide lays down its wet throat
    and alters the land to island—even as I watch
    I say there is no shore
    apart from stories of it,
    no smoke, no hut, no beacon ...”
    —Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)