Higher Order

Famous quotes containing the words higher order, higher and/or order:

“The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)

“The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)