Famous quotes containing the words quaker and/or gap:
“this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
Cry out in the long night for the hurt beast
Bobbing by Ahabs whaleboats in the East.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
—George Orwell (19031950)