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)

“It’s sort of a shock to see your head detached that way.”
—Crane Wilbur (1889–1973)

“All of our lives is a rebus
Of little wooden animals painted shy,
Terrific colors, magnificent and horrible,
Close together.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)