Sound Machine

Famous quotes containing the words sound and/or machine:

“Al: Ain’t you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look?
Ma Joad: We’re goin’ to California, ain’t we? Alright then, let’s go to California.
Al: That don’t sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)

“The chrysanthemums’ astringent fragrance comes
Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
Of machine within machine within machine.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)