Section Defined Specific

Famous quotes containing the words section, defined and/or specific:

“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)

“There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)

“Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)