Weight Machines

Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or machines:

“The merit of those who fill a space in the world’s history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)