“I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Precious Angel
“I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
Richard Feynman book The Meaning of It All
lecture III: "This Unscientific Age"
The Meaning of It All (1999)
A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner
all the time, and he could—
Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Five.
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker
Quote of Turner, c. 1806?; told by Mr Wells' daughter, Mrs. Wheeler; included in The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume II, George Walter Thornbury; Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London, 1862, p. 55
the first drawings for the publication of Turners's famous print-collection Liber Studiorum started here; Mrs. Clara Wheeler as a young girl sat by his side while Turner was making those drawings. A few years later she have gone out many times, sketching with Turner
1795 - 1820
Judith Krug (1940–2009) librarian and freedom of speech proponent
"A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times (January 18, 1997)
Françoise Sagan book Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)