Famous quotes containing the words edward, burr and/or van:
“Im saying Im an insect who dreamed he was a man and he loved it but the dream is over and the insect is awake.”
—Charles Edward Pogue, U.S. screenwriter, and David Cronenberg. Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum)
“Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)