The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great…

My feelings for you are like the stillness of the sand. They make no sound as they are washed away

— Banri Hidaka

“The emptiness is so intense, that anything which enters it leaves a trace, something of it remains in space: in the silence, in the…

— Marie Darrieussecq

I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world, I felt…

— Kofi Siriboe

“Gently, I reach forward and close her eyes with my fingertips, hoping it will make her seem merely asleep. But the stillness of sleep…

— Rae Carson

Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories burn down.…

— Jim Mullen

Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened…

— Ruth McKenney

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…

— Michael Denton

When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great…

— Henry Ford

“As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I heard the…

— Diego Rivera

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy…

— Anonymous

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without…

— Frederick Seitz

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure…

— Elliot Richardson

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

— Matthew Arnold

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have…

— Alfred Marshall

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

— Charles Dickens