Flour Sack

Famous quotes containing the words flour and/or sack:

    Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    Say the woman is forty-four.
    Say she is five seven-and-a-half.
    Say her hair is stick color.
    Say her eyes are chameleon.
    Would you put her in a sack and bury her,
    suck her down into the dumb dirt?
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)