Perpetual Motion Machines

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

    “Oh, blank confusion! true epitome
    Of what the mighty city is herself,
    To thousands upon thousands of her sons,
    Living amid the same perpetual whirl
    Of trivial objects, melted and reduced
    To one identity, by differences
    That have no law, no meaning, and no end—”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)