Promoter Escape Transition

Famous quotes containing the words promoter, escape and/or transition:

    “What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice—the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “What does this mean? The individual,
    Nature, mutation, strife?
    I fell, though I am simple, still the whole
    Is complex; and that life,
    A huge, doomed throbbing—has a wiry soul
    That must escape the knife.”
    —Roy Fuller (b. 1912)

    “Some of the taverns on this road, which were particularly dirty, were plainly in a transition state from the camp to the house.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)