Famous quotes containing the words advanced, air and/or striking:
“For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)
“After us theyll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps theyll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, Oh! Life is so hard! and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“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)