Famous quotes containing the words tygers of, tygers, pan, tang and/or biography:
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of ainstruction.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of ainstruction.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“A ‘spasm band’ is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mixed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.”
—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliver and sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)