Famous quotes containing the words thousand, square and/or meters:
“So careful of the type? but no.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone
She cries, A thousand types are gone;
I care for nothing, all shall go.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“Houses haunt me.
That last house!
How it sat like a square box!”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“In our Mechanics Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenters planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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