(13 quotes found)
“We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions”
Daniel Webster
“When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word.”
William S. Burroughs
“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“But the great miracle of the nineteenth century-the building of a new nation... and diffusing among them the necessities and comforts of civilization to a greater extent than the world had ever known before is explained by the development of harvesting machinery and of the railroad.”
John Moody
“A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.”
James Boswell
“These things happen, but you can see them coming before they occur. You can avoid these situations or diffuse them as quickly as possible. That's what did not happen and why the incident took place.”
Sylvester Croom
“The diffusion index was slightly weaker than expected but capital spending plans by big firms weren't bad for the start of a business year.”
Mamoru Yamazaki
“I guess I could say the bruise is sort of diffused somewhat so he doesn't have a half sized watermelon on his knee now. I feel 100 percent that he will be OK to make his next start.”
Phil Garner
“By all indications, he had hoped to chat with the guy and diffuse the situation without resorting to a shoot out.”
Bob Miller
