Island Ornate Day

Famous quotes containing the words island, ornate and/or day:

““Our island home
Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam.””
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

““Have we any control over being born?,” my friend asked in despair. “No, the job is done for us while we’re sleeping, so to speak, and when we wake up everything is all set. We merely appear, like an ornate celebrity wheeled out in a wheelchair.” “I don’t remember,” my friend claimed. “No need to,” I said: “what need have us free-loaders for any special alertness? We’re done for.””
—Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. The Self-Devoted Friend, New Directions (1967)

“Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)