Famous quotes containing the words sole, official and/or language:
“Only that film, which fluttered on the grate,
Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)
“Like the train’s beat
Swift language flutters the lips
Of the Polish airgirl in the corner seat.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)