Famous quotes containing the words lists of, lists, tropical, names, australian and/or region:
“Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“Behold the Atom—I preferred—
To all the lists of Clay!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)