Turning Flight Stall

Famous quotes containing the words turning, flight and/or stall:

    “Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When we are high and airy hundreds say
    That if we hold that flight they’ll leave the place,
    While those same hundreds mock another day
    Because we have made our art of common things ...”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
    —Jane Harrison (1850–1928)