Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, yo...u see a cog in The Machine that governs us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bill... is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the lo...ngest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of our factories with which we have ...lined all the watercourses in the States. A man hardly knows how much he is a machine, until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press, and locomotive, in his own image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the motion-picture theater, the screen at rest is a neutral, shadowy blank; at rest, the fish-eye lens of the TV screen mirrors... the room over which it presides. In both, the images are luminous, lighted as though from within, but the motion-picture images hover on or just in front of the surface of the screen. The viewer moves toward inclusion; no need for those movie-palace stunts, those three-dimensional experiments when, bicolored glasses in place, we ducked the baseball flung at us or were frozen in our seats by the locomotive that roared out of the screen and over our heads. The TV image, by contrast, recedes into its box and includes us out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the ...sunset over the box house hills and cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my... humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Horse, you flame thrower, you shark-mouthed man,... you laughter at the end of poems, you brown furry locomotive whipping the snow, I am a pale shadow beside you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »