Drum Machine Called

Famous quotes containing the words drum, machine and/or called:

    If all would lead their lives in love like me,
    Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
    No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
    Unless alarm came from the camp of love.
    Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

    Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)