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)

“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)

“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)