Famous quotes containing the words run, time, program, phase, application, errors and/or exceptions:
“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But wewere just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“Hear me, he said to the white commander. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. Our chiefs are dead; the little children are freezing. My people have no blankets, no food. From where the sun stands, I will fight no more forever.”
—For the State of Montana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I had let preadolescence creep up on me without paying much attentionand I seriously underestimated this insidious phase of child development. You hear about it, but youre not a true believer until it jumps out at you in the shape of your own, until recently quite companionable child.”
—Susan Ferraro (20th century)
“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 (16941773)
“In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note,
But tis my heart that loves what they dispise,”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloudand it is here above all that exceptions prove the rulethat everything that exists in nature exists in art.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)