Famous quotes containing the words perpetual motion, perpetual, motion and/or machines:
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“His breast was the seat of all those passions which degrade our nature, and disturb our reason. There they raged in a perpetual conflict; but avarice, the meanest of them all, generally triumphed, ruled absolutely, and in many instances, which I forbear to mention, most scandalously.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; Mbut when a beginning is made—when felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.”
—Judy Horacek (b. 1961)