Famous quotes containing the words upper, mixed and/or layer:
“All men live in suffering
I know as few can know,
Whether they take the upper road
Or stay content on the low....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“After a few months acquaintance with European coffee, ones mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)