Bona Vista Begins

Famous quotes containing the words bona, vista and/or begins:

    We have two kinds of “conference.” One is that to which the office boy refers when he tells the applicant for a job that Mr. Blevitch is “in conference.” This means that Mr. Blevitch is in good health and reading the paper, but otherwise unoccupied. The other type of “conference” is bona fide in so far as it implies that three or four men are talking together in one room, and don’t want to be disturbed.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
    Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
    A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
    And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
    sings.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “No, not another song,” said he,
    “Because my lady came
    A year ago for the first time
    At midnight to my room,
    And I must lie between the sheets
    When the clock begins to chime.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)