Famous quotes containing the words dark age, dark, age and/or book:
“They have slapped into the American mind more human misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“Slowly he entered dark and silence and lay there for so long that with what judgement remained he judged them to be final.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I’m sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)