Famous quotes containing the words poor, sleep and/or quality:
“The poor man!”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (16221673)
“How gladly would I meet,
Mortality, my sentence, and be earth
Insensible! how glad would lay me down,
As in my mothers lap! There I should rest,
And sleep secure.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“At first, he savored only the material quality of the sounds secreted by the instruments. And it had already been a great pleasure when, beneath the tiny line of the violin, slender, resistant, dense and driving, he noticed the mass of the pianos part seeking to arise in a liquid splashing, polymorphous, undivided, level and clashing like the purple commotion of wave charmed and flattened by the moonlight.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)