Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln

Famous quotes containing the words hugh of lincoln, unknown, hugh and/or lincoln:

    He kicked the ball with his right foot,
    And catched it with his knee,
    And through and through the Jew’s window
    He gared the bonny ball flee.
    —Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 5–8)

    Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    [If] Playboy’s Hugh Hefner has done nothing else for American culture, he has given it two of the great lies of the twentieth century: “I buy it for the fiction” and “I buy it for the interview.”
    Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

    I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)