Blue Ridge Railroad

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ridge and/or railroad:

“Tom-tom, c’est moi. The blue guitar
And I are one.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)