Attractive Fixed Point

Famous quotes containing the words attractive, fixed and/or point:

    One of the most attractive of those ancient books that I have met with is The Laws of Menu.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-ordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized?... A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I’m not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.
    Venus Williams (b. 1980)