Living Standard

Famous quotes containing the words living and/or standard:

    “We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    “We don’t want bores in the theatre. We don’t want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.”
    —Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)