static quotes

Thin squeaks of radio static, The captured fume of space foams in our ears.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'Cape Hatteras'.

La langue fran c° aise n'est point fixe¤  e et ne se fixera point. French is not a static language and will never become static.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Cromwell, pre¤  face.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

-Tynan, Kenneth
Curtains.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.2, ch.7.

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