Mechanical Beast

Famous quotes containing the words mechanical and/or beast:

“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)

“Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)