Plate Fin Heat

Famous quotes containing the words plate, fin and/or heat:

    “Then he rang the bell and ordered a ham sandwich. When the maid placed the plate on the table, he deliberately looked away but as soon as the door had shut, he grabbed the sandwich with both hands, immediately soiled his fingers and chin with the hanging margin of fat and, grunting greedily, began to much.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Since the fin has come a little early this siecle and anomie is all the rage, wry, dry tenderness is a suspect commodity.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Red river, red river,
    Slow flow heat is silence
    No will is still as a river
    Still.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)