Sounding Pitch

Famous quotes containing the words sounding and/or pitch:

    “The irresponsive silence of the land,
    The irresponsive sounding of the sea,
    Speak both one message of one sense to me:—
    ‘Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof,”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “I can’t earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It’s like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, shavings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)