Famous quotes containing the words piece, exit and/or doors:
“It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silkbut is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the bookon risk of a lumbago & sciatics.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“There is no exit from the circle of ones beliefs.”
—Keith Lehrer (b. 1936)
“Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brothers, or his brothers brothers God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)