Famous quotes containing the words set, word and/or marks:
“Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your
flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a
roar?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)