Famous quotes containing the words thurber and/or wrote:
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)