Continuous Group Actions

Famous quotes containing the words continuous, group and/or actions:

    “If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinema ... has access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Once it was a boat, quite wooden
    and with no business, no salt water under it
    and in need of some paint. It was no more
    than a group of boards. But you hoisted her, rigged her.
    She’s been elected.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
    Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
    Carrying beads?”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)