Internal Screw Threads

Famous quotes containing the words internal, screw and/or threads:

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
—Colley Cibber (1671–1757)

“Always the silence, the gesture, the specks of birds
suspended on invisible threads above the Site,”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)