Famous quotes containing the words previous, record and/or set:
“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“One foot in each great ocean
Is a record stride or stretch.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)