Famous quotes containing the words long, exact and/or sequence:
“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Now I have entered the year without words.
I note the queer entrance and the exact voltage.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“It isn’t that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history’s meaning.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)