Famous quotes containing the words power, supply and/or cord:
“Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“I think its a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether its better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.”
—Wendy Cope (b. 1945)
“one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine,
one is at the aquarium tending a seal,
one is dull at the wheel of her Ford,
one is at the toll gate collecting,
one is tying the cord of a calf in Arizona,
one is straddling a cello in Russia....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)