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)
“When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, Give em Watts, boysgive em Watts!”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)