Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus’ material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“We knew how to get by on what comes along, but the idea
Warning, waiting there like a forest, not emptied, beckons.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)