Famous quotes containing the word type:
“The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.”
—Freda Adler (b. 1934)
“Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”
—Julie Burchill (b. 1960)
“People forget that it is the eye that makes the horizon, and the rounding minds eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
Related Subjects
Related Phrases
Related Words