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- On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of an old… — Unknown Author
- In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk,… — Edward Abbey
- The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges,… — Steven Pinker
- The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately… — Walter Lippmann
- It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing,… — Lewis Thomas
- The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed… — John Dos Passos
- The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence… — Michael Chabon
- And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are… — Robert Penn Warren