Famous quotes containing the words record, previously and/or set:
“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“He had previously complimented me on my paddling, saying that I paddled “just like anybody,” giving me an Indian name which meant “great paddler.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It’s the set of the sails and not the gales,
That bids them where to go.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)