Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 279 authors

Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to… — Seth Klarman
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. — Ernest Hemingway
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of… — Henry R. Towne
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. — Anthony de Mello
If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be… — Calvin Coolidge
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He… — Lin Yutang
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has… — Remy de Gourmont
Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image… — Milan Kundera
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net -… — Eli Wallach
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen… — Shelby Foote
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become… — Bruce Lee
One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not… — Jose Mourinho
When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters… — Reyner Banham
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didnâ€™t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and… — Oscar Niemeyer
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it… — Brett Weston
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is… — Ray Bradbury
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike… — Theodor Adorno

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