Suction Side Surface

Famous quotes containing the words suction, side and/or surface:

    It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    It seems incredible, and I love them no less; and I can say that I would rather die than see any diminution of it on one side or the other.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)