Reaching Number

Famous quotes containing the words reaching and/or number:

    The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever (1912–1982)

    I believe if we introduced the Lord’s Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
    Henry Wilson (1812–1875)