Measure Jump

Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or jump:

“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“Some of these men had become abstrusely entangled with the spying departments of other nations and would give an amusing jump if you came from behind and tapped them on the shoulder.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)