Main Event Match

Famous quotes containing the words main, event and/or match:

    “The main trouble [with this country] is there are too many people who don’t know where they’re going and they want to get there too fast.”
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    “When little boys grown patient at last, weary,
    Surrender their eyes immeasurably to the night,
    The event will rage terrific as the sea;
    Their bodies fill a crumbling room with light.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
    Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .
    And know the explanation I must pass is this
    MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)