Smoke Tests

Famous quotes containing the words smoke and/or tests:

“Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
The kindred spirit of an inner haze?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)