Signal Reached Parts

Famous quotes containing the words signal, reached and/or parts:

    Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Slim Woman,
    all your ample parts
    have become thin
    and even the thin ones
    have reached the limit
    of thinness.
    What’s the use of anger here?
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    It’s wonderful how I jog
    on four-honed-down ivory toes
    my massive buttocks slipping
    like oiled parts with each light step.
    Philip Levine (b. 1928)