Skin/mechanics

Famous quotes containing the words skin and/or mechanics:

    “The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “the moderate Aristotelian city
    Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
    And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
    And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)