Sir Thomas Robinson

Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas, sir, thomas and/or robinson:

    “My Poynz, I cannot frame me tune to fayne,
    To cloke the trothe for praisse withowt desart,
    Of them that lyst all vice for to retayne.
    I cannot honour them that settes their part
    With Venus and Baccus all theire lyf long;
    Nor holld my pece of them allthoo I smart.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
    —Fred, Sir Hoyle (b. 1915)

    “When logics die,
    The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
    And blood jumps in the sun;
    Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Now view yourself as I was, on the spot—
    With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?
    Like this . . . You wouldn’t hang me? I thought not.””
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)