Famous quotes containing the words average, fade and/or duration:
“The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.”
—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)
“And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
For hours when all must fade like dew....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)