Direct Orient Express

Famous quotes containing the words direct, orient and/or express:

    “No direct hit to smash the shatter-proof
    And lodge at last the quivering needle
    Clean in the eye of one who stands transfixed
    In fascination of her brightness.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “Of all that Orient lands can vaunt,
    Of marvels with our own competing,
    The strangest is the Haschish plant,
    And what will follow on its eating.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.”
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)