Providing Material

Famous quotes containing the words providing and/or material:

“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us—that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions—they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.”
—Harold Laski (1893–1950)