Machinery Quotes

316 Machinery quotes by 257 unique authors

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of… — James Wolcott
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why?… — Virginia Woolf
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he… — Arthur Young
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery.… — P.G. Wodehouse
ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars — Leonard Cohen
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will… — Frank Herbert
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an… — Allen Ginsberg
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth. — Kurt Vonnegut
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most… — Upton Sinclair
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in… — Voltaire
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women. — Charles Bukowski
I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work. — Thomas Moore
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give… — Albert Camus
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. — Kurt Vonnegut
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related… — Roland Barthes
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. — Charles Stross
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. — Brian Selznick
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery. — Kurt Vonnegut
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies… — Kurt Vonnegut

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