Famous quotes containing the words dark, matter and/or particles:
“Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers—they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“Lieutenant Hirth: The Eskimos are racially as low as Negroes.
The Factor: What’s the matter with Negroes?
Lieutenant Hirth: They’re semi-apes. Only one degree above the Jews.”
—Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)
“When was it that the particles became
The whole man, that tempers and beliefs became
Temper and belief and that differences lost
Difference and were one? It had to be
In the presence of a solitude of the self....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)