Sir Joseph Banks

Famous quotes containing the words sir, joseph and/or banks:

“When the critics come around it’s always too late.”
—Sidney, Sir Nolan (1917–1992)

“St Joseph thought the world would melt
But liked the way his finger smelt.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-coloured bulbs of man-rayed luminance. A glowing valley of the shadow of life. The strolling crowd went slowly by through the kinematically divine thoroughfare of New York.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)