Famous quotes containing the words perform, hook and/or turns:
“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
Thats Ophelia, that Cordelia;”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“A hook shot kisses the rim and
hangs there, helplessly, but doesnt drop
and for once our gangly starting center
boxes out his man and times his jump
perfectly, gathering the orange leather
from the air like a cherished possession”
—Edward Hirsch (b. 1950)
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
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