Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 279 authors

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers
I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can… — Dziga Vertov
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present. — Paul Schrader
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. — Andrew Vachss
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. — Jerzy Kosinski
Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other… — G I Gurdjieff
I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it. — Ambrose Bierce
I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." — Phyllis Diller
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. — Ambrose Bierce
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it… — James Clerk Maxwell
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements… — Wilhelm Wundt
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a… — Alan Lightman
A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same. — Michael Dolan
Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger. — Steven Moffat
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental… — Yuan T. Lee
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the… — Andre Norton
Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who… — Tony Kornheiser
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still — D. H. Lawrence
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a… — Michael Arad

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