Cylinder Head Painted

Famous quotes containing the words cylinder, head and/or painted:

    “The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Like the moon her kindness is.
    If kindness I may call
    What has no comprehension in’t,
    But is the same for all
    As though my sorrow were a scene
    Upon a painted wall.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)