Famous quotes containing the words jones, public, service, welsh and/or assembly:
“Come all you rounders if you want to hear
A story bout a brave engineer;
Casey Jones, that was the rounders name
On a heavy eight-wheeler he rode to fame.”
—Unknown. Casey Jones (l. 14)
“The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl.... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The masochist: I send my tormentor hurrying hither and thither in the service of my suffering and desire.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“God defend me from that Welsh fairy,
Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)