Main Line Runs

Famous quotes containing the words main, line and/or runs:

    “The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Some say existence like a Pirouot
    And Pirouette, forever in one place,
    Stands still and dances, but it runs away;
    It seriously, sadly, runs away
    To fill the abyss’s void with emptiness.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)