Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And its a hard, its a hard, its a hard, its a hard,
Its a hard rains a-gonna fall.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“There was books too.... One was Pilgrims Progress, about a man that left his family it didnt say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when its more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“Every moment of ones existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)