Points Penalty Meant

Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:

    “the
    Decapitated exclamation points in that Other Woman’s eyes.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “As they wend away
    A voice is heard singing
    Of Kitty, or Katy,
    As if the name meant once
    All love, all beauty.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)