High Altitude Performance

Famous quotes containing the words high, altitude and/or performance:

    “Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “To vote is like the payment of a debt—a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)