Famous quotes containing the words top and/or rope:
“I sweep. One gyrates like a top and falls
And stunned, stone blind, and deaf
Buzzes its frightful F
And dies between three cannibals.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.”
—Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820–1887)