Famous quotes containing the words dominant, noise and/or type:
“Dont you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, youll never be a dominant force in the world? Youll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. Shes in there sitting down.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.”
—John Donne (c. 15721631)
“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly forgot it and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)