Machinery Quotes · Page 2

More than machinery, we need humanity.

— Charlie Chaplin

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

— Herman Wouk

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

— Emile Capouya

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

— Mason Cooley

I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

— Adam Rapp

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

— Anonymous

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half…

— Julie Burchill

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

— Michael Behe

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as…

— Joan Frank

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will…

— Cordell Hull

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is…

— Emily Greene Balch

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

— Thomas de Quincey

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Ruth McKenney

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste…

— Mario Batali

One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to…

— Thomas Mallon

Pap Machinery uses LubeMate products to keep our truck fleet moving so we can provide timely service to our customers. LubeMate has…

— Greg Roberts

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of…

— Terence McKenna

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything…

— Alberto Manguel

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint…

— David Korten

[Donald] Trump's campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one,…

— Chris Hayes

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

— Henry Ford

The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his…

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part…

— William J. Brennan

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and…

— Peter Thiel

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the…

— Patrick Pearse

“I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work…

— Diego Rivera

“It did occur to him that perhaps he’d gone to the wrong Academy – the guys in the Space Fleet always had…

— Christina Engela

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral…

— William Jennings Bryan

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

— Nikola Tesla

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

— Laurie R. King

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery.”

— Gregory Benford

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

— Henry Ford