Reverse Edge Hit

Famous quotes containing the words reverse, edge and/or hit:

    We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go ... till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.
    Frances Burney (1752–1840)

    Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
    And I dropped down, and down—
    And hit a World, at every plunge,
    And Finished knowing—then—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)