External Direct Sum

Famous quotes containing the words external, direct and/or sum:

    The soul, he said, is composed
    Of the external world.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figure’s rightful owner the sum of $5000 for its recovery. I am prepared to promise, to promise ... what is the phrase?—’No questions will be asked.’
    John Huston (1906–1987)