Famous quotes containing the words yawn and/or contagion:
“A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)