Tight Turns

Famous quotes containing the words tight and/or turns:

“For Pope’s tight back was rather a goat’s than man’s.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)