Famous quotes containing the words grand, forks and/or sister:
“One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Just think of all the spare time that has flown
Straight into nothingness by being filled
With forks and faces....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my sister. She’s my daughter. My sister, my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my sister and my daughter!”
—Robert Towne (b. 1936)