Principal Fractional Ideals

Famous quotes containing the words principal, fractional and/or ideals:

    Heaven has a Sea of Glass on which angels go sliding every afternoon. There are many golden streets, but the principal thoroughfares are Amen Street and Hallelujah Avenue, which intersect in front of the Throne. These streets play tunes when walked on, and all shoes have songs in them.
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Hummingbird
    stay for a fractional sharp
    sweetness, and’s gone, can’t take
    more than that.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)