Single Definite Article

Famous quotes containing the words single, definite and/or article:

    Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you’re beginning to live for a single aim—for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths—when all you’re really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.
    Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    What are these essays but grotesque and monstrous bodies, pieced together of different members, without any definite shape, without any order, coherence, or proportion, except they be accidental?
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)