Machine Quotes
1422 quotes by 1141 authors
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One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.
— Mira Grant
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I'll cab it home." "Naw. I'll hang until you're through. Then I'll drag you back to your apartment. Watch you throw up for an hour.…
— J R Ward
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And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns.
— Derek Landy
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Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's…
— Brian Selznick
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
— Albert Camus
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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
— Frank Herbert
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Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate…
— Robertson Davies
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It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel,…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
— Margaret Atwood
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Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever…
— Gore Vidal
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I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would…
— Kenneth Oppel
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But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing…
— Stephen Chbosky
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I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is…
— Veronica Roth
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I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was…
— Veronica Roth
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The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
— Bernard Beckett
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LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am…
— Charles Bukowski
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I’ll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it’s time?†“I got it,†one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo…
— Rick Riordan
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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