Push

Famous quotes containing the word push:

“I’ve never seen a better seaman, but as a man he’s a snake. He doesn’t punish for discipline, he likes to see men crawl. Sometimes I’d like to push his poison down his own throat.”
—Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

“To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)