It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because… — Seth Shostak 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
You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain… — Paul Newman 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
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces… — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new… — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by… — Thomas Nelson Page Copy Share Image
The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who… — Pete Domenici Copy Share Image
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity… — Angie Zelter Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it,… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image