Geometric Standard

Famous quotes containing the words geometric and/or standard:

“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)