Famous quotes containing the words degree, heart and/or block:
“Need I explain to the inhabitants of England, for whom I chiefly write, how extreme are those sufferings, and how great the costliness of that old age which is unable in any degree to supply its own wants? Such old age should not, we Britannulists maintain, be allowed to be.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“She saw the couches of the dead, and where the fibrous root
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)