Engine Rooms

Famous quotes containing the words engine and/or rooms:

    “There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.”
    —Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)

    “I see slip to the curb the long machines
    Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette
    Shellacked with silk and light
    The hard legs of our women.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)