Verbal Roots Beginning

Famous quotes containing the words verbal, roots and/or beginning:

    “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”
    —Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)

    “Where the world ends
    The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
    Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
    The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
    The roots of the world.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance—due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author’s attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful—and possibly the only—help that can be given.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)