Device Turns

Famous quotes containing the words device and/or turns:

    It is my hope to be able to prove that television is the greatest step forward we have yet made in the preservation of humanity. It will make of this Earth the paradise we have all envisioned, but have never seen.
    —Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Professor James Houghland, Murder by Television, just before he demonstrates his new television device (1935)

    fear like a dog stuffed in my mouth,
    fear like dung stuffed up my nose,
    fear where water turns into steel,
    fear as my breast flies into the Disposall,
    fear as flies tremble in my ear,
    fear as the sun ignites in my lap ...
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)