Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:
“Finding everything deepthat is an inconvenient trait: it causes a person constantly to strain his eyes and eventually to find out more than he might have wished.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Im glad to find that you dislike Venice because I thought it detestable when we were there, both timesonce it might be due to insanity but not twice, so I thought it must be my fault. I suppose the obscurer reaches might be beautiful.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“The worst reporter, even for his age, in New York, was the affectionate epithet applied to me.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
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