Sink Base Temperature

Famous quotes containing the words sink, base and/or temperature:

“The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

“What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.”
—Muriel Beadle (b. 1915)

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)