Closest Prior Art

Famous quotes containing the words closest, prior and/or art:

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

“I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad.
I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
We’ll no more meet, no more see one another.
But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter—
Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh,
Which I must needs call mine.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)