Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with… — Hugo Cabret Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image