Stroke Single Cylinder

Famous quotes containing the words stroke, single and/or cylinder:

“This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A single dish cannot satisfy the tastes of a hundred people.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)