Number Retired

Famous quotes containing the words number and/or retired:

    “Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
    —Donald Davidson (b. 1917)

    “I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.”
    —Omar Bradley (1893–1981)