A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet. — Chic Murray Copy Share Image
Don't fool with machines you're not familiar with - stick with the treadmill and elliptical. — David Kirsch Copy Share Image
Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly. — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine. — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine… The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear… — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell Copy Share Image
There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from… — Robin Day Copy Share Image
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest… — Mark Weiser Copy Share Image
“Besides," said Kennedy, "the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image