Strikes

Famous quotes containing the word strikes:

    “Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
    —Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)

    “What strikes me as odd now is how much my father managed to get across to me without those heart-to-hearts which I’ve read about fathers and sons having in the study or in the rowboat or in the car.... Somehow I understood completely how he expected me to behave, in small matters as well as large, even though I can’t remember being given any lectures about it beyond the occasional, undramatic “You might as well be a mensch.””
    —Calvin Trillin (20th century)

    “There are two births: the one when light
    First strikes the new awakened sense;
    The other when two souls unite,
    And we must count our life from thence,
    When you loved me and I loved you,
    Then both of us were born anew.”
    —William Cartwright (1611–1643)