Famous quotes containing the words mass, white and/or dwarf:
“In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes,... it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nations history.”
—Walter Lippmann (18891974)
“Lately
Ive been looking at old-fashioned plaids, fingering
Starched white collars, wondering whether theres a way
To get them really white again. My wife
Thinks Im in OsloOslo, France, that is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own sizetake my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)