Baby Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

“A motorcyclist rode down the empty street, arms and legs rounded in an O, and came back up with the sound of thunder; his…

— Robert Musil

“Driving in clouds of dust and darkness beyond the outer suburbs the self-starter began to smoke. Grovelling under the vehicle among the ants and…

— Eric Newby

“motes of dust had begun drifting back to earth like startled birds returning to roost. In the thinning haze, law enforcement continued to arrive…

— Barbara Nickless

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

— Rachel Kushner

“The sound of the airplanes is in the key of war. The thunder of the truck trains, the sputter of the motorcycles, the music…

— Clair Kenamore

“The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the…

— H. G. Wells

“That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat, And…

— John McCrae

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the…

— Jackson Browne

“Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle.…

— A.J. Orde

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

— Sherwood Anderson