Famous quotes containing the words cut and/or pile:
“yet there was a chance in this
To see the present as it never had existed,
Clear and shapeless, in an atmosphere like cut glass.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)