bent quotes

   Still bent to make some port he knows not where, Still standing for some false impossible shore.

- Matthew Arnold
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'A Summer Night', l.68^9.

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Things I Have Learned Playing Poker On The Hill'.