Famous quotes containing the words mass, spring and/or damper:
“Teach those Asians mass production?
Teach your grandmother egg suction.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers, under summer trees./By chilling autumn waters, in the frosts/Of supercilious winterall my days/Ill have as mentors those reproving ghosts.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (18591927)
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