Famous quotes containing the words space, direct and/or sum:
“Finally she grew quiet, and after that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage. Hours of this, a period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both. Out of this an awful calm.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and ... in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”
—William Dean Howells (18371920)
“To sum up our most serious objections in a few words, we should say that Carlyle indicates a depthand we mean not impliedly, but distinctlywhich he neglects to fathom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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