Mechanical Stage

Famous quotes containing the words mechanical and/or stage:

“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)

“There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)