Winnowing Fan

Famous quotes containing the words winnowing and/or fan:

    A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a wind-mill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment,—and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.
    Walter Pater (1839–1894)

    Being a [Chicago] Cubs fan prepares you for life—and Washington.
    Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947)