Constant Optical Path

Famous quotes containing the words constant, optical and/or path:

    “Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.”
    —Eugene Field (1850–1895)

    “The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
    Out of a misty dream
    Our path emerges for a while, then closes
    Within a dream.”
    —Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900)