Traditional Wooden Coaster

Famous quotes containing the words traditional, wooden and/or coaster:

“The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.”
—Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)

“Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack”
—John Masefield (1878–1967)