Famous quotes containing the words poplar, bluff and/or area:
“The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,”
—Sara Coleridge (1802–1852)
“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)