Famous quotes containing the words nick and/or hurd:
“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.”
—Douglas Hurd (b. 1930)