Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or instance:
“The furniture,
Taken out and examined under the starlight, pleads
No contest. And the backs of those who sat there before.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Every landscape which is dreary enough has a certain beauty to my eyes, and in this instance its permanent qualities were enhanced by the weather. Everything told of the sea, even when we did not see its waste or hear its roar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)