West Allotment

Famous quotes containing the words west and/or allotment:

    “You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.”
    —Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Zab (Robert Carradine)

    “Now I hold Creation in my foot

    Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly—
    I kill where I please because it is all mine.
    There is no sophistry in my body:
    My manners are tearing off heads—

    The allotment of death.”
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)