Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 272 authors

I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all… — Erasmus Darwin
This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights.… — Jonathan Potter
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
God asks that we give thanks to Him for whatever blessings we receive from Him. It is easy for us to become mechanical in our… — Henry B. Eyring
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment… — D. H. Lawrence
Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon… — William Hazlitt
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,… — William Hazlitt
We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast… — Karl Marx
In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather… — Paul McCartney
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots… — Mary Garden
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its… — Leonardo da Vinci
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. — Catherine Deneuve
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with… — Havelock Ellis
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always… — Herbie Hancock
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. — Garrett Hardin
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. — Daisaku Ikeda
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the… — Marshall McLuhan

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