Days

Famous quotes containing the word days:

    “Man with lantern: Who are you?
    Captain: The Flying Cloud. 220 days out of New York and 50 days trying to find your blasted harbor.
    Man with lantern: Nobody asked you to come.
    Captain: Got anything in this hog-end of the world except fog?
    Man with lantern: Sure, we’ve got gold, fountains of gold.”
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    “The days to come are a watershed.
    You have to improve your portrait of God
    To make it plain.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one’s actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)