Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or periods:
“The disaster ... is not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespectthis belief that the arts are dispensable, that theyre not critical to a cultures existence.”
—Twyla Tharp (b. 1941)
“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the months labor in the farmers almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)