Famous quotes containing the words talking, machine and/or company:
“A man may appear learned, without talking Sentences; as in his ordinary Gesture he discovers he can Dance, tho he does not cut Capers.”
—Richard Steele (16721729)
“The chrysanthemums astringent fragrance comes
Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
Of machine within machine within machine.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fallthe company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)
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