Older Standard Definition

Famous quotes containing the words older, standard and/or definition:

    “She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave.”
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)

    “An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for a strict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “I’m beginning to think that the proper definition of “Man” is “an animal that writes letters.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)