Famous quotes containing the words advanced, air and/or striking:
“Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we are old.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“A slight relax of air where cold was
And water trickles ...”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevancedue either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an authors attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most usefuland possibly the onlyhelp that can be given.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
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