Leap Year Starting On Saturday

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

“Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“The first year was like icing.
Then the cake started to show through.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“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)

“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)