Famous quotes containing the words year, survival and/or rate:
“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they dont fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“The planets survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“This is the essential distinctioneven oppositionbetween the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, the film objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writerin actual practice it is rated very lowwe must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”
—Sir Herbert Read (18931968)