Famous quotes containing the words small, letter and/or turned:
“Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A letter from home is worth ten thousand ounces of gold.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”
—Jean Arp (1887–1948)