Famous quotes containing the words single, definite and/or article:
“many and many a day he thither went,
And never lifted up a single stone.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on life (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)