Famous quotes containing the words foundation, stock and/or service:
“The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first planting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts. To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ships company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the others heart.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but theres no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
—Tallulah Bankhead (19031968)