States Olympic Book

Famous quotes containing the words states, olympic and/or book:

“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)

“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)