Open Set Condition

Famous quotes containing the words open, set and/or condition:

    A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
    Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    They set up a noise like crickets,
    A chattering wise and sweet,
    And her hair was a folded flower
    And the quiet of love in her feet.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Romance reading and writing might be seen ... as a collectively elaborated female ritual through which women explore the consequences of their common social condition as the appendages of men and attempt to imagine a more perfect state where all the needs they so intensely feel and accept as given would be adequately addressed.
    Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)