Simon/names

Famous quotes containing the words simon and/or names:

“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
—Paul Simon (b. 1941)

“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)