Assembly Line Quotes
51 quotes by 48 authors
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We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to…
— Barack Obama
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The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned…
— Leo Burnett
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
— George Packer
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
— Arthur Erickson
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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what…
— Ashley Montagu
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I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.
— Michael Moore
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My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and…
— Michael Moore
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age,…
— Alvin Toffler
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In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But…
— Vir Das
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Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something…
— Carson McCullers
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You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth…
— Max Lucado
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The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.
— Rollo May
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I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and…
— Beatrice Sparks
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Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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How lovely." The old lady sighed. "An office romance. I always wanted an office romance. Of course I never really had a job, which made…
— Susan Mallery
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Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she…
— Lisi Harrison
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
— Rollo May
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We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations,…
— Wendell Berry
Who Wrote These Assembly Line Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 51 Assembly Line Quotes, led by these top contributors: