Large Spontaneous Avalanches

Famous quotes containing the words large and/or spontaneous:

“The thirst to know and understand,
A large and liberal discontent.”
—Sir William Watson (1858–1935)

“My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)