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

    - (Harold) Hart Crane
      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.

    -Victor Marie Hugo
      Cromwell, pre  face.

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

    - Kenneth Tynan
    Curtains.

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

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

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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