Famous quotes containing the words amount and/or borrowed:
“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)