Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or firing:
“We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. Dream makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like rent, feeding a wife, satisfying a man.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)