Machine Quotes

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How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much donâ€™t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sunâ€™s wrath. Back in the day… — Rick Riordan
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. — Gary Shteyngart
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then… — Elizabeth Gilbert
the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine. — Ronald Wright
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to… — Charlaine Harris
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work… — George Orwell
The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus — Rick Riordan
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It… — Charles Yu
You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember. — Rodman Philbrick
The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that… — Michael Lewis
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull… — Douglas Coupland
Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All… — Kurt Vonnegut
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a â€˜functionâ€™, one cog… — Yukio Mishima
I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out.… — Lee Child
Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such… — Iris Murdoch
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. — Umberto Eco
Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended… — J R Ward
Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day."… — Nora Roberts

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