Famous quotes containing the words blank, tape and/or halting:
“If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse! you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Of the two
who feign anger,
sulk in mock sleep,
and give ear
to the others halting sighs,
whos the winner?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)