Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or lead:
“I feel perfectly miserable with 19 hairpins all sticking straight into my head. But, dear me, let us be elegant or die!”
—Victor Heerman (1893–1977)
“There was ... a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. I can testify that he looked very sober. This is the usual fortune of pioneer dogs, for they have to face the brunt of the battle for their race.... When a generation or two have used up all their enemies’ darts, their successors lead a comparatively easy life. We owe to our fathers analogous blessings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)