Leap Year Starting

Famous quotes containing the words leap, year and/or starting:

    Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
    Elizabeth II (b. 1926)

    It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo; it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp.
    —For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)