Seat Single Engine

Famous quotes containing the words seat, single and/or engine:

    If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,—for that is the seat of sympathy,—he forthwith sets about reforming—the world.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Everything was there,
    Every single thing
    Waiting was to bring,
    Clear from hydrogen
    All the way to men.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.
    —Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)