Sharply

Famous quotes containing the word sharply:

    What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    Submission is the only good;
    Let me become an instrument sharply stringed
    For all things to strike music as they please.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
    Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)