Action Rod Bends

Famous quotes containing the words action, rod and/or bends:

    “If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltz—before the play starts—imagines it is going to be....”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Alas,

    For the tireless heart within the little
    Lady with rod that made them rise
    From their noon apple-dreams, and scuttle
    Goose-fashion under the skies!”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “The doctor will take you now. He is burly and clean;
    Listening, like lover or worshiper, bends at your heart.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)