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)

    “The women’s liberation movement at this point in history makes the American Communist Party of the 1930s look like a monolith.”
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)