Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or cylinder:
“The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“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)