Birney/decline

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or decline:

“owls in the beardusky woods”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)