White Tie/elements

Famous quotes containing the words white, tie and/or elements:

    “The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] Anthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the “white male” into a nice pickle.”
    —Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Revolution (August 19, 1869)