Pollen Tube Grows

Famous quotes containing the words pollen, tube and/or grows:

    “Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can’t buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.”
    —Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)

    “Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)