Famous quotes containing the words bernard, marshall, gordon, professional and/or life:
“Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The young woman-smell
Of your poppy body
Rises to my brain as opium”
—Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate’s sultry.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“she bit the towel and called on God
and I saw her life stretch out . . .
I saw her torn in childbirth,
and I saw her, at that moment,
in her own death and I knew that she
knew.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)