Inadequate Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words inadequate and/or numbers:

    “Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
    —Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

    “Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
    Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
    My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
    Her classics registered a little flat!
    I rose, and venomously spat.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)