Machine Quotes

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It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such… — Frederick Seitz
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go. — Vincent Van Gogh
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this… — Mark Twain
It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just… — Craig Kilborn
If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will… — Maria Bartiromo
Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. — Jimi Hendrix
Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips. — Rich Lowry
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine? — Jimi Hendrix
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I suspect it is for oneâ€™s self-interest that one looks at oneâ€™s surroundings and oneâ€™s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines. — Thomas Pynchon
A poem is a small machine made out of words. — William Carlos Williams
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement. — Antonin Scalia
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we… — Peter Brook
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the… — Woodrow Wilson
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber
My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine. — Wynonna Judd
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing… — Russell Shorto

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