Drum Machine Called

Famous quotes containing the words drum, machine and/or called:

    “Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ““And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
    “Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “nine the next, and so on.”
    “What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice.
    “That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)