Heavy Machine

Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or machine:

    “With fingers weary and worn,
    With eyelids heavy and red,
    A woman sat, in unwomanly rags
    Plying her needle and thread—
    Stitch! stitch! stitch!
    In poverty, hunger, and dirt,”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    “What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?”
    —Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962)