Hard Paste

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or paste:

    “Although I mean it, and project the meaning
    As hard as I can into its brushed-metal surface,
    It cannot, in this deteriorating climate, pick up
    Where I leave off.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,—if it is only to make a better paste blacking,—and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)