Small Black Powder

Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:

    “It is the small doubts of timid souls that accomplish their ruin. It is the narrow vision, the fear and trembling hesitation, that constitute defeat.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “Lo, thus, as prostrate, ‘In the dust I write
    My heart’s deep languor and my soul’s sad tears.’
    Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
    To blot the sunshine of exultant years?”
    —James Thomson (1834–1882)

    “My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
    ‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
    On her pale lids....”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)