Arthur Mellen Wellington

Famous quotes containing the words arthur mellen wellington, arthur, mellen and/or wellington:

    To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering ... is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Mellen Wellington (1847–1895)

    Honors to me now are not what they once were.
    —Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)

    He’s a comer. That’s what comers do: they get in your face.
    Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Dick Mellen (Sydney Pollack)

    Something is about to happen. Leaves are still.
    Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky.
    Perhaps he will fall.
    —Alfred Wellington Purdy (b. 1919)