World Lines

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or lines:

    Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don’t get on very well with the world.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.
    Richard Bentley (1662–1742)