Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or firing:
“The well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can
Across the fields behind the house
To seek the brook if still it ran....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“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)