True Specific Gravity

Famous quotes containing the words true, specific and/or gravity:

    “I’d better get right down to the job.
    It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in
    precision parts factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
    America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Grown beyond nature now, soft food for worms,
    They lift frail heads in gravity and good faith.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)