Famous quotes containing the words space, direct and/or sum:
“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favourite; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”
—Freya Stark (18931993)
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
—Walter Lippmann (18891974)
“The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figures rightful owner the sum of $5000 for its recovery. I am prepared to promise, to promise ... what is the phrase?No questions will be asked.”
—John Huston (19061987)