Shaped Cutting Edge

Famous quotes containing the words shaped, cutting and/or edge:

    To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost—that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization—is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
    John Berger (b. 1926)

    As I came to the edge of the woods,
    Thrush music—hark!
    Now if it was dusk outside,
    Inside it was dark.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)