Level Crossing Accident

Famous quotes containing the words level, crossing and/or accident:

    “[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
    That the Captain they trusted so well
    Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
    And that was to tingle his bell.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)