Conventional Fire Alarm

Famous quotes containing the words conventional, fire and/or alarm:

    “A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.... It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.”
    —Graham Greene (1904–1991)

    “And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
    I may without fail
    Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)