Famous quotes containing the words special and/or principle:
“I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower—and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)