Thin Blue Line

Famous quotes containing the words thin, blue and/or line:

    “Think of those barren places where men gather
    To act in the terrible name of rectitude,
    Of acned shame, punk’s pride, muscle or turf,
    The bully’s thin superiority.”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    “Tom-tom, c’est moi. The blue guitar
    And I are one.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “That’s the down-town frieze,
    Principally the church steeple,
    A black line beside a white line;
    And the stack of the electric plant,
    A black line drawn on flat air.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)