External Event

Famous quotes containing the words external and/or event:

    “A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly,
    The wind beat in the roof and half the walls.
    The ruin stood still in an external world.
    It had been real. It was something overseas
    That I remembered, something that I remembered
    Overseas, that stood in an external world.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)