Famous quotes containing the words firing and/or glass:
“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 (1803–1882)
“Nor do I try to keep a garden, only
An avocado in a glass of water—”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)