Famous quotes containing the words nose, shock and/or wave:
“A foxs nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)
“Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
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