Beckett/places

Famous quotes containing the words beckett and/or places:

“Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such “improvements” in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety; but as for the beauty of one of these “model farms,” I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)