I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace…

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which…

— Henry David Thoreau

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

— Marcel Dzama

Barack Obama was better as a campaigner than as a - as a president sometimes in this same position. It is easier when you…

— Chuck Todd

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for…

— Anonymous

A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my…

— William Shakespeare

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

— George Plimpton

[Barack Obama] was comfortable when he had the foil.

— Chuck Todd

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

— Ray Toro

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very…

— Frederic Joliot-Curie

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of…

— Philip Kitcher