Famous quotes containing the words community, patent and/or review:
“When a language createsas it doesa community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
—Christopher Ricks (b. 1933)
“The cigar-box which the European calls a lift needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the mans patent purgeit works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldnt have invented The New York Review of Books.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)