Internal Screw Threads

Famous quotes containing the words internal, screw and/or threads:

    “You will see Coleridge—he who sits obscure
    In the exceeding lustre and the pure
    Intense irradiation of a mind,
    Which, with its own internal lightning blind,
    Flags wearily through darkness and despair—
    A cloud-encircled meteor of the air,
    A hooded eagle among blinking owls.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
    —Colley Cibber (1671–1757)

    “Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,—these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)