Pinnacle Height

Famous quotes containing the words pinnacle and/or height:

    “Fives, and tens,
    Threes and fours and twelves,
    All the volte face of decimals,
    The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”
    —Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)