Ton Center Cab

Famous quotes containing the words ton, center and/or cab:

    “Hearing your words, and not a word among them
    Tuned to my liking, on a salty day
    When inland woods were pushed by winds, that flung them
    Hissing to leeward like a ton of spray,”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Pockets: What color is a giraffe?
    Dallas: Well, mostly yellow.
    Pockets: And what’s the color of a New York taxi cab?
    Dallas: Mostly yellow.
    Pockets: I drove a cab in Brooklyn. I just pretend it’s rush hour in Flatbush and in I go.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)