High Roller Event

Famous quotes containing the words high, roller and/or event:

    “I laugh at the lore and pride of man
    At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
    For what are they all, in their high conceit,
    When man in the bush with God may meet?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “I feared these present years,
    The middle twenties,
    When deftness disappears,
    And each event is
    Freighted with a source-encrusting doubt,
    And turned to drought.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)