Machine Quotes - page 2

[Shorter variant:] In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. (Benjamin Graham)
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. View quote
John Searle
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. View quote
Flip Wilson
Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. View quote
Neal Stephenson
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. View quote
Northrop Frye
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. View quote
Henri Bergson
The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels. View quote
Theodor Herzl
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose... it's like your broken. View quote
Brian Selznick
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. (Gary Shteyngart)
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. View quote
Travis Barker
A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. View quote
Jerry Lewis
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. View quote
Colin Greenwood
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image. View quote
Rollo May
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. View quote
George Takei
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun. View quote
Fidel Castro
The street's alive as secret debts are paid. Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland. (Bruce Springsteen)
Modern European composers ... have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly. View quote
George Gershwin
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. View quote
Umberto Eco
Our old-fashioned system is better than any new-fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas. View quote
Jean Chrétien
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. View quote
Edward Dahlberg