Famous quotes containing the words steiner, chain and/or circles:
“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“You know, he wanted to shoot the Royal Family, abolish marriage, and put everybody who’d been to public school in a chain gang. Yeah, he was a idealist, your dad was.”
—David Mercer, British screenwriter, and Karel Reisz. Mrs. Dell (Irene Handl)
“And why do you cry, my dear, why do you cry?
It is all in the whirling circles of time.
If millions are born millions must die,”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)