Straight Stretch

Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or stretch:

    Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
    Pallas Athena in that straight back and arrogant head:
    All the Olympians; a thing never known again.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac ... and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)