Place

Famous quotes containing the word place:

    “This is just a footnote, though a microcosmic one perhaps, to the greater curve
    Of the elaboration; it asks no place in it, only insertion hors-texte as the invisible notion of how that day grew
    From planisphere to heaven, and what part in it all the “I” had, the insatiable researcher of learned trivia, bookworm ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “And air-like leave no pression to be seen
    Where’er they met, or parting place has been.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions.”
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)