Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:
“And but for fancies, which aver
That all thy motions gently pass
Athwart a plane of molten glass,
I scarce could brook the strain and stir”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“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)
“Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the bodys fragility and vulnerability ...”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
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