Famous quotes containing the words silver, bullet and/or band:
“A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.requiescat in paceyou know. That seems to me the most beautiful expressionI like it much better than He is a jolly good fellow, which is simply rowdy.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
squandering your unquoted mirth,
which keeps the ground, and never soars,
while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
goes like bullet to its mark;
while the solid curse and jeer
never balk the waiting ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
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