Famous quotes containing the words side, sliding and/or door:
“The question is thisIs man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which is I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (18041881)
“What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“And we passed to the end of a vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?
She repliedUlalumeUlalume!
Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)