Famous quotes containing the words reasonable, time and/or lines:
“... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)
“Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husbands often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
—Richard Bentley (16621742)