Famous quotes containing the words nerve, gas and/or house:
“There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
To his fathers house below securely bound.”
—Edwin Muir (18871959)