Famous quotes containing the words give and/or focus:
“I think you overestimate our dear Viennese, my friend. Do you know you didn’t even give them a good bang at the end of songs, to let them know when to clap.”
—Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)
“Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)