Day Port Visit

Famous quotes containing the words day, port and/or visit:

    ... you learned to compress almost everything in the first sentence, and the only phrase you needed was “plans were made to organize.” It took me a day to learn this, and that is all you have to learn in newspaper writing.
    Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)

    It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Madam, or sir, would you visit on the butterfly the sins of the caterpillar?
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)