Famous quotes containing the words thin, double and/or layer:
“The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
And on old Hiems thin and icy crown
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: Be wary. On my business cards: Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
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