Thousand Knives

Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or knives:

    “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,—roll!
    Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
    Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control
    Stops with the shore;”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

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