Sensory Sweep

Famous quotes containing the words sensory and/or sweep:

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Haste me to know it, that I with wings as swift
As meditation, or the thoughts of love,
May sweep to my revenge.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)