Cogs Quote by Edith Wharton

Its funny how you made me seem like a big part of your life, then dropped me like I was nothing. I guess I…

— Anonymous

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

— Charles Durning

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

— Tupac Shakur

“This is called a piqué machine, it sews that finest stitch, called piqué, requires far more skill than the other stitches… This is called…

— Philip Roth

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

— Frank Herbert

“We’re using this machine called the human body in ways that would void the manufacturer’s warranty.”

— Bruce Grierson

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one…

— Yukio Mishima

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a…

— Otto Ohlendorf

“She supposed she was a little cog in the big wheel of Empire. “Nothing wrong with being a cog,” Maurice said, himself now a…

— Kate Atkinson

I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start…

— Brad Parscale

We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy…

— Maria V. Snyder

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

— David Corbett