Hold Open Device

Famous quotes containing the words hold, open and/or device:

    What? for I know not yet what you will say.
    alc: Nor will you ever, if you interrupt.
    Proceed, and I will hold my speechless tongue.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here; guard yourself altogether from taking on their mental attitude! Where irony is not a direct and classic device of oratory, not for a moment equivocal to a healthy mind, it makes for depravity, it becomes a drawback to civilization, an unclean traffic with the forces of reaction, vice and materialism.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)