Famous quotes containing the words glory, quest and/or maniac:
“Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.”
—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)
“I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)