Wick/people

Famous quotes containing the words wick and/or people:

“Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
—Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)

“They tell me there’s some people in this world takes a bath every week!”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)