Famous quotes containing the words turbulent and/or number:
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?Nono, tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
—Washington Irving (17831859)
“My idea is that the world outsidethe so-called modern worldcan only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivorsthe one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poetsand to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)