Sal Soul Orchestra

Famous quotes containing the words sal, soul and/or orchestra:

“Perhaps you have been busy
Horse-whipping Sal or Lizzie,
Stealing some poor man’s baby,
Selling its mother, maybe.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“As the artist
extends his world with
one gratuitous flourish—a stroke of white or
a run on the clarinet above the
bass tones of the orchestra ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)