Quotes About Acme

It is a vacant vista, the acme of opulent American dreariness Ann has for some reason married into. I feel like getting up and walking out onto the lawn—waiting for my son in the grass.

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

This," Herb said, "is the acme. The absolute acme. Why don't we just pull up to him and ask where he's going?

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

The best day of my career was probably winning the World Cup!

To triumph in battle and be universally acclaimed 'Expert' is not the acme of skill, for to lift an autumn down requires no great strength; to distinguish between the sun and moon is no test of vision; to hear the thunderclap is no indication of acute hearing.

You're only as good as the best thing you've ever done.

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.

I liked how the coyote could get whatever he wanted from the Acme company," said Coleman. "That was the best part," said Serge. "Anvils, foot springs, hot-air balloons, giant magnets .

Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.

Teabing hobbled over. You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of 'rules,' but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so. The thing was done.

I was poised on its dizzy summit,

Far from being the acme of religion — let alone its telic blossoming — God is the principle of its suppression. The unity of theos is the tombstone of sacred zero, the crumbling granitic foundation of secular destitution.