Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 272 authors

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love… — Clive Barker
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the… — Diana Gabaldon
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no… — William Faulkner
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. — G I Gurdjieff
Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept… — Richard Brautigan
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood… — John Gardner
And what am I? (Adron) Youâ€™re kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia) I have no heart at all. What I have is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have… — E. M. Forster
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
I can't believe you jokers fixed it." Hi was picking his way down to the beach. "Believe it, clown. Too much brain power here to… — Kathy Reichs
Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by… — James Patterson
For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all oneâ€™s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the… — Janice Galloway
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply… — Benjamin Hoff
After great pain, a formal feeling comes â€” The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs â€” The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And… — Emily Dickinson
This for many people is what is most offensive about huntingâ€”to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to… — Michael Pollan
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics… — Douglas Adams
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead,… — Alan Lightman
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand… — Isaac Newton

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