Machine Quotes
1422 quotes by 1141 authors
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The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is…
— Newt Gingrich
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Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest…
— Michael Denton
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On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns,…
— Orlando Figes
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A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
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How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam…
— Richard Fisch
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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man…
— Richard Jordan
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A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of…
— Kenneth Anger
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George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the…
— Christopher Nolan
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This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.
— Itzhak Perlman
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic…
— C. Wright Mills
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I…
— Haruki Murakami
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No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought…
— Phillips Brooks
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't…
— Walker Evans
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious…
— Ansel Adams
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A book is a machine to think with.
— I. A. Richards
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Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state
— Dean Rusk
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The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start…
— John Banville
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