Famous quotes containing the words air, america, wise, loan and/or controversy:
“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“They set up a noise like crickets,
A chattering wise and sweet,
And her hair was a folded flower
And the quiet of love in her feet.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best—
God! but the interest!”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)