Famous quotes containing the words reverse, edge and/or hit:
“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“when it comes to my death let it be slow,
let it be pantomime, this last peep show,
so that I may squat at the edge trying on
my black necessary trousseau.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Every now and then, when youre on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. Its a sound you cant get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means youve hit them where they live.”
—Shelley Winters (b. 1922)