Mary Ann Eisel

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

    “Solomon’s Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Soaked by the sparkling waters of America.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 2740, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    “Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain;
    And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
    These cloud-sopped, marble hands, this monumental
    Argument of the hewn voice, gesture and psalm,
    Storm me forever over her grave”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)