Surely Constant Random

Famous quotes containing the words surely, constant and/or random:

    “Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive? Yet it has its law to which it thunders obedience when it should as surely as the buds expand in the spring.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.”
    —Eugene Field (1850–1895)

    “poor Felix Randal;
    How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
    When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
    Didst fettle for the great gray drayhorse his bright and battering
    sandal!”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)