Famous quotes containing the word tear:
“No one can tear your thread out of himself.
No one can tie you down or set you free.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“What these perplexities of my uncle Toby were,—’tis impossible for you to guess;Mif you could,—I should blush ... as an author; inasmuch as I set no small store by myself upon this very account, that my reader has never yet been able to guess at any thing. And ... if I thought you was able to form the least ... conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page,—I would tear it out of my book.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“[France is] a country where the money falls apart but you can’t tear the toilet paper.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)