Perpetual Motion Machines

Famous quotes containing the words perpetual motion, perpetual, motion and/or machines:

“Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
—Richard Bentley (1662–1742)

“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)

“... The festival-colored brightness
That is their motion ...”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)