Famous quotes containing the words type, species and/or fixed:
“To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.”
—Juliet Mitchell (b. 1940)