Advanced Air Striking

Famous quotes containing the words advanced, air and/or striking:

    “I don’t say ‘tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “Nor sequent centuries could hit
    Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE’s wit.
    The men who lived with him became
    Poets, for the air was fame.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)