Standard Boiling Point

Famous quotes containing the words standard, boiling and/or point:

    “The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,
    That nearer, every Day,
    Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
    —C.S. (Clive Staples)