Long Tons

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or tons:

    “It was so long since I’d seen masses of young men that I’d forgotten how much pleasanter men of between twenty and thirty were to be around with than older men. It isnt so true of women. When I was in my twenties I thought the grown adults I ran into were a disaster and now I know I was right.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)