Passages Refer

Famous quotes containing the words passages and/or refer:

    You ever
    Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired
    It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft
    The passages made toward it.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)