Severe Lip Twitching

Famous quotes containing the words severe, lip and/or twitching:

    The Harmless Torturers. In the Bad Old Days, each torturer inflicted severe pain on one victim. Things have now changed. Each of the thousand torturers presses a button, thereby turning the switch once on each of the thousand instruments. The victims suffer the same severe pain. But none of the torturers makes any victim’s pain perceptibly worse.
    Derek Parfit (b. 1943)

    Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare
    And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
    Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a
    flea,
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)