Public Register Volume

Famous quotes containing the words public, register and/or volume:

    “A ‘spasm band’ is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mixed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.”
    —For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Never to walk from the station’s lamps and laurels
    Carrying my father’s lean old leather case
    Crumbling like the register at the hotel....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)