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)

    “We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “In the cold of Europe, under prudish northern fogs, except when slaughter is afoot, you only glimpse the crawling cruelty of your fellow men. But their rottenness rises to the surface as soon as they are tickled by the hideous fevers of the tropics.”
    —Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)