hood quotes

   I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood.

-Anonymous
c.1575  Song, included in the play Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 2. 'Him that wears a hood' is either a monk or a scholar.

I would be a falcon and go free. I tread her wrist and wear the hood, Talking to myself, and would draw blood.

-William Dunbar
  Bending the Bow,'My Mother Would Be a Falconress'.

We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched bya new beauty: the beautyof speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breatha roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot ismore beautiful than theVictory of Samothrace.

- Emilio FilippoTomasso Marinetti
  Manifesto of Futurism.