Ruby Falls Cave

Famous quotes containing the words ruby, falls and/or cave:

“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
—Mae West, U.S. actor, screenwriter, and Leo McCarey. Ruby Carter (Mae West)

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, “Wolf, wolf,” and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been born—the tall story had been born in the tall grass.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)