Famous quotes containing the words louis stevenson, louis, stevenson and/or state:
“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong is said to have said when asked what jazz is, ‘If you got to ask, you ain’t never gonna get to know.’”
—Ned Block (b. 1942)
“So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)