Nas Barbers Point

Famous quotes containing the words nas, barbers and/or point:

“A clerk ther was of Oxenford also
That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
As leene was his hors as is a rake,
And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“You know how Utamaro’s beauties sought
The end of love in their all-speaking braids.
Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain
That not one curl in nature has survived?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)