Machine Quotes

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Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your… — Alan Moore
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined… — Daisaku Ikeda
Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to… — William Goldman
The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as… — Cecelia Ahern
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. — Audre Lorde
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along… — Eoin Colfer
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not… — Woody Allen
...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want… — Henri Bergson
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical… — Virginia Woolf
Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They… — Rick Riordan
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued.… — Jasper Fforde
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the… — Thomas Moore
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like… — Rick Bragg
When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good...… — Maureen Medved
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used… — David Byrne
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely… — Kevin Brockmeier

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