Task Waits

Famous quotes containing the words task and/or waits:

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)

“Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)