Alert Level

Famous quotes containing the words alert and/or level:

“Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)