Stroke Single Cylinder

Famous quotes containing the words stroke, single and/or cylinder:

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)