Shocking Blue Greatest

Famous quotes containing the words shocking, blue and/or greatest:

    “What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin’s] idea that the community’s morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community’s morality.”
    —Ronald Dworkin (b. 1931)

    “I think I noticed once
    T’was morning one sole street-lamp still bright-lit,
    Which, with a senile grin, like an old dunce,
    Vied the blue sky, and tried to rival it....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)