Famous quotes containing the words air and/or superiority:
“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beautythis city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscuritya way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)