Famous Statements
- Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
- Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or statements:
“How else is the famous short story ‘A study in Abjection’ to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“He admired the terrible recreative power of his memory. It was only with the weakening of this generator whose fecundity diminishes with age that he could hope for his torture to be appeased. But it appeared that the power to make him suffer of one of Odette’s statements seemed exhausted, then one of these statements on which Swann’s spirit had until then not dwelled, an almost new word relayed the others and struck him with new vigor.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)