Offered Simulated Wood

Famous quotes containing the words offered, simulated and/or wood:

    With a condescending grin he offered his hand, hardly bothering to sit up. I grasped it only because it provided me with the curious sensation of Narcissus fooling Nemesis by helping his image out of the brook.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Not too many years ago, a child’s experience was limited by how far he or she could ride a bicycle or by the physical boundaries that parents set. Today ... the real boundaries of a child’s life are set more by the number of available cable channels and videotapes, by the simulated reality of videogames, by the number of megabytes of memory in the home computer. Now kids can go anywhere, as long as they stay inside the electronic bubble.
    Richard Louv (20th century)

    This is one of the most serious intrusions into personal life that I can think of, and it’s as bad as anything I’ve ever experienced.
    —Ellen Wood Hall (b. 1945)