Famous quotes containing the words sample, geometric and/or means:
“As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Why are you going?
Because nothing means much to me anymore.
Why are you going?
I don’t know. I have never known.”
—Mark Strand (b. 1934)