Famous quotes containing the word painted:
“Like the moon her kindness is.
If kindness I may call
What has no comprehension int,
But is the same for all
As though my sorrow were a scene
Upon a painted wall.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Arthur was very small.
He was all white, like a doll
that hadnt been painted yet.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (19111979)
“The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)