Mary Ann Eisel

Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary and/or ann:

    “Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “It is the space inside that gives the drum its sound.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 1189, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    “In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)