Famous quotes containing the words style and/or clock:
“If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Theyll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;
Theyll tell the clock to any business that
We say befits the hour.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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