Famous quotes containing the words point, compass and/or roses:
“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)
“It is the star to every wandring bark,
Whose worths unknown, although his height be taken.
Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickles compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Say that she rail, why then Ill tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
Say that she frown, Ill say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly washed with dew.
Say she be mute, and will not speak a word,
Then Ill commend her volubility,
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)