Pierce Van Hoy

Famous quotes containing the words pierce and/or van:

    “Now you grab me by the ankles.
    Now you work your way up the legs
    and come to pierce me at my hunger mark.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)