Coast Main Line

Famous quotes containing the words main line, coast, main and/or line:

“The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coast ... and tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man’s Land.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“I said: “A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)