Famous quotes containing the words aiming and/or instructions:
“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sensebut by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurdfor sense cannot be counterfeited.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“They had supposed their formula was fixed.
They had obeyed instructions to devise
A type of cold, a type of hooded gaze.
But when the Negroes came they were perplexed.
These Negroes looked like men....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)