Small Aperture

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or aperture:

    They shall yet belie thy happy years
    That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip
    Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
    Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
    And all is semblative a woman’s part.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders’ sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away ... is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.
    Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)