Famous quotes containing the words main line, england, main and/or line:
“The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Old England liberty—to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.”
—J.G. (John Gabriel)
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)
“For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.”
—Edith Mendel Stern (1901–1975)