Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:
“Well, I had gone and spoiled it again, made another mistake. A double one in fact. There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“The roots of the grass strain,
Tighten, the earth is rigid, waitshe is waiting
And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)