(410 quotes found)
“If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.”
J. B. Priestley
“The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.”
William Blake
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.”
David Hilbert
“Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
Walter Benjamin
“If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.”
Richard M. Nixon
“By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”
Yoshio Taniguchi
“I like this, ... I'm going to go on playing contained.”
Shirley MacLaine
“On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park”
Curtis McDougall
“We just have to do what we did last time. Contain them, make them take bad shots and limit their touches.”
Chris Lutz
