Deep Creek High

Famous quotes containing the words deep, creek and/or high:

“It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can’t
Tell or remember even what they were.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)

“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)

“In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power, and, in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)