Perform Hook Turns

Famous quotes containing the words perform, hook and/or turns:

    “All perform their tragic play,
    There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
    That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A hook shot kisses the rim and
    hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t 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 one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)