Famous quotes containing the words task, force and/or series:
“When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poets task to turn it into an audience.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
—C. Wright Mills (19161962)