Wan Lai Festival

Famous quotes containing the words wan, lai and/or festival:

    “one pale woman all alone,
    The daylight kissing her wan hair,
    Loitered beneath the gas lamps’ flare,
    With lips of flame and heart of stone.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The My Lai soldier lifts me up again and again
    and lowers me down with the other dead women and babies
    saying, It’s my job. It’s my job.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Sabbath. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)