Stuff

Famous quotes containing the word stuff:

    The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even—ultimately, God willing, one day—that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men’s eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.
    Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter,
    Present mirth hath present laughter.
    What’s to come is still unsure.
    In delay there lies no plenty,
    Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
    Youth’s a stuff will not endure.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted
    For making so full-sized a man as she wanted,
    So, to fill out her model, a little she spared
    From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared,
    And she could not have hit a more excellent plan
    For making him fully and perfectly man.
    James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)