Famous quotes containing the words extremely, large and/or numbers:
“Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastimeIm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. Its extremely painful. I agree that its hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. Its no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (18731954)
“A large tree may have some withered twigs; a large family may have some neer-do-well offspring.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.”
—Robert Hewison (b. 1943)