Consists

Famous quotes containing the word consists:

    The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.
    Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
    Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)

    He is not heroic, as Raleigh, nor pious, as Herbert, nor philosophical, as Shakespeare, but he is the child of the English muse, that child which is the father of the man. The charm of his poetry consists often only in an exceeding naturalness, perfect sincerity, with the behavior of a child rather than of a man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)