Famous quotes containing the words fly, ball and/or striking:
“I unknit.
Words fly out of place
and I, long into the desert,
drink and drink
and bow my head to that meadow
the breast, the melon in it....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)