Shocking Blue Greatest

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

    “A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.”
    —Tacitus (c. 55–120)

    “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)

    ““To my thinking” boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, “the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus.”
    “And yours,” said the P.B.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)