Machine Quotes

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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if… — P D Ouspensky
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a… — Haruki Murakami
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly… — Henry David Thoreau
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.… — David Gerrold
Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he… — P D Ouspensky
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a… — Oscar Wilde
Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait — Blaise Cendrars
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was… — Edith Wharton
I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and… — Brian Selznick
I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions;… — Robert E. Howard
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine.… — Jennifer Weiner
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory… — Mark Haddon
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says:… — Eduardo Galeano
Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine — Fiona Apple
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your… — Ray Bradbury
I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others,… — Laurie R. King
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species. — Christopher Moore
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes… — May Sarton

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