Final Match Day

Famous quotes containing the words final, match and/or day:

    “After a month or so I get used to the book’s final stage, to its having been weaned from my brain. I now regard it with a kind of amused tenderness as a man regards not his son, but the young wife of his son.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
    Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .
    And know the explanation I must pass is this
    MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)