Surreal Number/powers of %cf%89

Famous quotes containing the words surreal, number and/or powers:

    “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible ... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “I believe if we introduced the Lord’s Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.”
    —Henry Wilson (1812–1875)

    “The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)