Famous quotes containing the words contained, slips and/or marked:
“The train was now going fast. Franz suddenly clutched his side, transfixed by the thought that he had lost his wallet which contained so much.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“I light matches and put them in my mouth,
and my teeth melt but the greenery hisses on.
I drink blood from my wrists
and the green slips out like a bracelet.
Couldn’t one of my keepers get a lawn mower
and chop it down if I turned inside out for an hour?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.”
—Ernest Renan (1823–1892)