Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Snobs in pursuit of a mark are more shameless than the sluts of Sodom.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)