Famous quotes containing the words received, generally and/or positive:
“I waited alone, in the company of orchids, roses and violets wholike people waiting beside you, but to whom you are unknownmaintained a silence which their individuality of living things rendered more imposing and in their chilly manner received the heat from an incandescent coal fire, preciously placed behind a crystal glass, in a white marble tub where it dropped, from time to time, its dangerous rubies.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
“I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pesterd the world ever convince me of the contrary.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)