Famous quotes containing the words time and/or machine:
“Every time the bucks went clattering
Over Oklahoma
A firecat bristled in the way.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)