Defining Empty Sums

Famous quotes containing the words defining, empty and/or sums:

    The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.
    Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    The water never formed to mind or voice,
    Like a body wholly body, fluttering
    Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion
    Made constant cry,
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    At Timon’s villalet us pass a day,
    Where all cry out,What sums are thrown away!’
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)