Famous quotes containing the words average, maximum and/or temperature:
“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorestusually a writer or artist with no sense for speculationand in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.”
—J.M. (John Millington)
“I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanityit had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in ones mind.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to missa drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
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