Famous quotes containing the words western and/or style:
“Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectualsand I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am not sure would ever feel this waysome of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)