Forming Operation

Famous quotes containing the words forming and/or operation:

“What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)