Famous quotes containing the words previously experienced, previously, experienced and/or scene:
“What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as goodthe atavism of an older ideal.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as goodthe atavism of an older ideal.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Anglers Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summers cloud?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“But whatever happens, wherever the scene is laid, somebody, somewhere, will quietly set outsomebody has already set out, somebody still rather far away is buying a ticket, is boarding a bus, a ship, a plane, has landed, is walking toward a million photographers, and presently he will ring at my doora bigger, more respectable, more competent Gradus.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)