Drum Machine Called

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

    “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
    As his corse to the rampart we hurried;”
    —Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)

    “He is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers, to assist in working the great machine of government erected for their use, and consequently subject to their superintendence.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)