Famous quotes containing the words advanced, air and/or striking:
“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“No jutty, frieze,
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle;
Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed
The air is delicate.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Here we are, were alone in the universe, theres no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. Weve only got ourselves. Somehow, weve just got to make a go of it. Weve only ourselves.”
—John Osborne (b. 1929)
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