Famous quotes containing the words treated, quantum and/or mechanically:
“The quality of this novel is the way the plot is treated and not the plot itself.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy.Take of common sense quantum sufficit, add a little application to the rules and orders of the House, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness, and elegancy of style.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I dont make love till almost obliged.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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