Sharp Trailing Edge

Famous quotes containing the words sharp, trailing and/or edge:

    “I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment,
    But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
    Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “They call back to us
    from the gauzy edge of paradise,
    good news, good news.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)