Famous quotes containing the words excited, nuclear and/or state:
“The existence of good bad literaturethe fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that ones intellect simply refuses to take seriouslyis a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)