Movable Rails

Famous quotes containing the words movable and/or rails:

“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)