Famous quotes containing the words set, word and/or marks:
“But whatever happens, wherever the scene is laid, somebody, somewhere, will quietly set outsomebody has already set out, somebody still rather far away is buying a ticket, is boarding a bus, a ship, a plane, has landed, is walking toward a million photographers, and presently he will ring at my doora bigger, more respectable, more competent Gradus.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
—John Steinbeck (19021968)
“It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... I felt that I had suddenly acquired valueto myself, to my family, and to the world.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)