Sewing Machines

Famous quotes containing the words sewing machines, sewing and/or machines:

“One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.”
—Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974)

“Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense of advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)