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Machines Quotes by Rick Riordan
- People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
- Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It…
- 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…
- We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased…
- Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.
- You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?
- How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don’t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun’s wrath. Back in the day…
- The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus
- Leo dropped into the pool and approched the cage. "Hola, Tia. Little bit of trouble?" She [Hera] crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation. "Don't…
- Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus
- 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…
- Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked.…
- I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G…
- It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with…
More Machines Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers… — Charles Babbage
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage
- In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase… — Charles Babbage
- Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have… — George Matthew Adams
- I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard
- I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines. — Eric Bana
- Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the… — Antonio Banderas
- I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker