Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branch’ll go a-singin’ as it pass.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)