Short Finned Pilot

Famous quotes containing the words short, finned and/or pilot:

    “The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
    giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
    a savage servility
    slides by on grease.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “The river knows the way to the sea;
    Without a pilot it runs and falls,
    Blessing all lands with its charity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)