Nas Barbers Point

Famous quotes containing the words nas, barbers and/or point:

    “A clerk ther was of Oxenford also
    That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
    As leene was his hors as is a rake,
    And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
    But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “You know how Utamaro’s beauties sought
    The end of love in their all-speaking braids.
    Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain
    That not one curl in nature has survived?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)