Absent Minded

Famous quotes containing the words absent and/or minded:

    “New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “I don’t think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn’t have minded at all if it hadn’t happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place.”
    —Quinlan Terry (b. 1937)