Upward Centrifugal Force

Famous quotes containing the words upward, centrifugal and/or force:

    “At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
    Turn upward from the desk when the human engine waits
    Like a taxi throbbing waiting,”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, “a centrifugal tendency.” In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.”
    —Anatole Broyard (1910–1990)

    “A petty bureaucrat always watches his superior’s countenance, just as a boatman trims his sails according to the force of the wind.”
    —Chinese proverb.