Points Penalty Meant

Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:

“If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the “Naught is more real ...” and the “Ubi nihil vales ...” both already in Murphy and neither very rational.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“He had previously complimented me on my paddling, saying that I paddled “just like anybody,” giving me an Indian name which meant “great paddler.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)