Heart Attacks

Famous quotes containing the words heart and/or attacks:

“Intellectual life is international. Only a period of discouragement, an age that has given up on itself, that wants to “preserve,” that has been driven onto the defensive, can be intellectually nationalist. Such a period is essentially “conservative.” A person who has progress in his heart is international.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)