Famous quotes containing the words general and/or purpose:
“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“How still the evening is,
As hushed on purpose to grace harmony!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)