Ground Glass Screen

Famous quotes containing the words ground, glass and/or screen:

“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile into a celestial scream.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)