Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,
She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.
An abstemious man would reel at her look,
As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.”
—William Plomer (19031973)
“There was books too.... One was Pilgrims Progress, about a man that left his family it didnt say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“There are in our existence spots of time,”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
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