Top Dead Centre

Famous quotes containing the words top, dead and/or centre:

    “The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.”
    —Russell Lynes (b. 1910)

    “It is a dead heart.
    It is inside of me.
    It is a stranger
    yet once it was agreeable,
    opening and closing like a clam.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “In the centre of his cage
    The pacing animal
    Surveys the jungle cove
    And slicks his slithering wiles
    To turn the venereal awl
    In the livid wound of love.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)