Red Deer Optimist

Famous quotes containing the words red, deer and/or optimist:

    the woman in the ambulance
    Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly—
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    When shot, the deer seldom drops immediately, but runs sometimes for hours, the hunter in hot pursuit. This phase, known as ‘deer running,’ develops fleet runners, particularly in deer- jacking expeditions when the law is pursuing the hunters as swiftly as the hunters are pursuing the deer.
    —For the State of Maine, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
    James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)