Big Ten

Famous quotes containing the words big and/or ten:

    “O, pluck was he to the backbone and clear grit through and through;
    Boasted and bragged like a trooper; but the big words wouldn’t do;
    The boy was dying, sir, dying, as plain as plain could be,
    Worn out by his ride with Morgan up from the Tennessee.”
    —Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)

    “Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)