Famous quotes containing the words circular and/or smooth:
“Oh Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poes and Bea Dantes, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
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