Thousand Knives

Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or knives:

    “Thou art the unanswered question;
    Couldst see thy proper eye,
    Alway it asketh, asketh;
    And each answer is a lie.
    So take thy quest through nature,
    It through thousand natures ply;
    Ask on, thou clothed eternity;
    Time is the false reply.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)