Lord Cockburn

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or cockburn:

    ““There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
    Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on,
    Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows,
    Is some of it pr—No, ‘t is not even prose;
    I’m speaking of metres;”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.”
    —Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)