Browning Machine Guns

Famous quotes containing the words browning, machine and/or guns:

    “Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:
    What I aspired to be,
    And was not, comforts me:”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “All day long the machine waits: rooms,
    stairs, carpets, furniture, people
    those people who stand at the open windows like objects
    waiting to topple.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Again the guns disturbed the hour,
    Roaring their readiness to avenge,
    As far inland a Stourton Tower,
    And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)