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)

    “Playing alone, I found the wall.
    One side was gray, the other an indelible gray.
    The two sides were separated by a third,
    Or spirit wall, a coarser gray.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “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)