Famous quotes containing the words hearing the, hearing, shape, drum and/or conjecture:
“She had some art of hearing and yet not
Hearing the latter wisdom of the world.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A fearful man is always hearing things.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“You’re a business idea in the shape of a man.”
—David Lean (1908–1991)
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)