Thomas Middle Island

Famous quotes containing the words thomas, middle and/or island:

    “If you want to use a cliché you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.”
    —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)

    “Sometimes there’s nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can’t they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk?”
    —Russell Hoban (b. 1925)

    “The island dreams under the dawn
    And great boughs drop tranquillity;
    The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
    A parrot sways upon a tree,
    Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)