Famous quotes containing the words obtain, organic and/or matter:
“Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)