Famous quotes containing the words space, direct and/or sum:
“I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but
To look upon him, till the diminution
Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;
Nay, followed him till he had melted from
The smallness of a gnat to air, and then
Have turned mine eye and wept.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A temple, you know, was anciently an open place without a roof, whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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)