Famous quotes containing the words white, cloud and/or press:
“I never knowed how clothes could change a body before. Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when hed take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that youd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose,
Tired of his dark dominion, swung the fiend
Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened,”
—George Meredith (18281909)
“The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that hes dead.”
—An Eminent Editor Of Press Baron. Quoted in Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain Today, ch. 9 (1965)