Minutes Silence

Famous quotes containing the words minutes and/or silence:

“The minutes wing’d their way wi’ pleasure:
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“A silence already filled with noises,
A canvas on which emerges
A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)