Quantities

Famous quotes containing the word quantities:

    “The Walrus and the Carpenter
    Were walking close at hand:
    They wept like anything to see
    Such quantities of sand:
    “If this were only cleared away,”
    They said, “it would be grand!”
    “If seven maids with seven mops
    Swept it for half a year,
    Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
    “That they could get it clear?”
    “I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
    And shed a bitter tear.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.”
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka [Everett Leroi Jones] (b. 1934)

    “Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)