Single Wire Earth

Famous quotes containing the words single, wire and/or earth:

    “What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    “Constantly risking absurdity
    and death
    whenever he performs
    above the heads
    of his audience
    the poet like an acrobat
    climbs on rime
    to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

    “What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)