Bottom Marginal Rate

Famous quotes containing the words bottom, marginal and/or rate:

“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, are effectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
—Raymond Williams (1921–1988)

“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
—Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)