Machine Quotes - page 8

Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game. (Toby Young)
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up. View quote
Albert Brooks
When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history. View quote
Alexander Siddig
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special. View quote
Antoine Predock
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to. View quote
Bill Janklow
I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio. View quote
Bob Gunton
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. View quote
Boris Vallejo
Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself. View quote
Brenda Song
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible. (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. View quote
Ben Fountain
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies. View quote
Charles Bass
I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine. View quote
China Chow
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful. View quote
Chuck Mangione
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. View quote
Clyde Tombaugh
Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it. View quote
Candice Swanepoel
The United States has its own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. View quote
Crispin Glover
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. View quote
Caroline Lawrence
Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind. View quote
DeForest Soaries
It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else. (Dido Armstrong)
And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. View quote
Duane G. Carey
I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head. View quote
Duncan Sheik
Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat. View quote
Danny Pino
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. View quote
Emile Hirsch