Style Places Periods

Famous quotes containing the words style, places and/or periods:

    “All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.... For me “style” is matter.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Words whispered on Earth are heard in Heaven like thunder; evil done in dark places the gods see like lightning.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)