Famous quotes containing the words stroke and/or compression:
“If thou and nature can so gently part,
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)