(85 quotes found)
“Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas.”
W. H. Auden
“The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.”
Washington Irving
“The market has withstood an immense amount of bad news this year. The market has shown strength by holding up.”
Carl Birkelbach
“The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing.”
Carl Bernstein
“We've improved on defence immensely and we've improved our center ice immensely. What that translates to, I don't know.”
Bob Clarke
“The greatest thing about this is getting the entire community involved, ... Every dollar helps immensely -- but this allows us to promote the Give Every Child a Chance and raise awareness in the community.”
Carol Davis
“This verdict is an outrage. It is an example of the immense difficulty faced by women all over the world when they seek justice in the face of violence and abuse.”
Carmen Barroso
“Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.”
Boris Pasternak
“I'm real proud of this team. We improved immensely in the last month. Our record is not an indication of what these guys are capable of doing and what they did.”
Bill Ryan
“Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
