F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him."
Docks quotes
Docks
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Anyway, members of the Inquisitorial Squad do have the power to dock points so, Granger, I'll have five from you for being rude about our new Headmistress. Macmillan, five for contradicting me. Five because I don't like you, Potter. Weasley, your shirt's untucked, so I'll have another five for that. Oh yeah, I forgot, you're a Mudblood, Granger, so ten off for that."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself."
Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
"For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites."
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"Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility."
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"O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one."
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"To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace."
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