Replace Elevated Portion

Famous quotes containing the words replace, elevated and/or portion:

    He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)