George Adams - Writers

Writers

  • George Adams (optician) (1720?-1773), English optical designer and scientific writer
  • George Adams, Jr. (1750–1795), his son, English optician and instrument maker
  • George Adams (translator) (1698–1768), English translator of Sophocles
  • George Burton Adams (1851–1925), American medievalist historian at Yale University

Read more about this topic:  George Adams

Famous quotes containing the word writers:

    “There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.... They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)