Quantum Stirring

Famous quotes containing the words quantum and/or stirring:

“The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy.—Take of common sense quantum sufficit, add a little application to the rules and orders of the House, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness, and elegancy of style.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“... only
A figure spun on stirring of the air,
And so, untrue.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)