Big Lagoon State

Famous quotes containing the words big and/or state:

    “Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or
    some northerly harbor of Labrador,
    before he became a schoolteacher
    a great-uncle painted a big picture.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in which kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over.”
    —David Lewis (b. 1941)