Free Throws Attempted

Famous quotes containing the words free, throws and/or attempted:

    The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    He throws off
    artifacts as he
    contracts and expands the
    muscle of his being,
    ringed in himself,
    tilling.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language.... Now, so entire is my faith in the power of words, that at times, I have believed it possible to embody even the evanescence of fancies such as I have attempted to describe.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)