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)

    “The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “If powers divine
    Behold our human actions—as they do—
    I doubt not then but innocence shall make
    False accusation blush.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)