Famous quotes containing the words special, award, outstanding, performance and/or female:
“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“Still be kind,
And eke out our performance with your mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
““Reason” in language: oh, what a fraudulent old female she is! I am afraid that we have not eliminated God because we still believe in grammar.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)