State Solution

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or solution:

    “I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out that, having accidentally solved “the riddle of the universe,” he had yielded to artful exhortation and shared that solution with his inquisitive interlocutor, whereupon the latter had died of astonishment.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)