Soft Coal

Famous quotes containing the words soft and/or coal:

“Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
—Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)