Contraptions Quotes

#1. The West-march of the Walmart Held all the food in the world, Bottled beer by the boatload, Frost-kept food, milk and meat. Setting up for a siege behind barricades The Norsemen fetched food, collected clothing, Turkish trousers with flies in the front Kept closed with clever contraptions, Tiny

Neal Stephenson

#2. A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

John Jay Chapman

#3. america...is the interplay of three hundred million rube goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#4. Time having transformed his own body into a storehouse for man-made contraptions designed to fend off collapse ... there was only our bodies, born to live and die on terms decided by the bodies that had lived and died before us.

Philip Roth

#5. Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as 1500 B.C. and before. Thousands of people have seen some kind of navigable contraptions in the sky, and some have sworn it under oath.

Morris K. Jessup

#6. ...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed.

H.D.F. Kitto

#7. Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Tom Waits

#8. There was one floor that was all gynecologists. They could tell by the remnants of weird optical contraptions- all the convoluted tools men use when they're searching for the source of their anxieties.

Carl Watson

#9. He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

Dave Eggers

#10. Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

Nick Park

#11. It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.

Stefan Petrucha

#12. My politics in a nutshell: let's stop giving corporations and newfangled contraptions what they need, and get back to giving human beings what we need.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#14. Most of the equipment in the gym looked like it belonged in Christian's "Red Room of Pain." I didn't think NYSC was a front for a BDSM club, so there must be another purpose behind the various contraptions; I was just clueless as to what that purpose was.

Genna Rulon

#15. It's the technology, see? We can't get away from it. Anywhere you find people, you find it. Clever little contraptions. Cunning strategies. We're toolmakers born and bred; and even if you don't believe in anything else, you'd better believe in that. Because that's human nature.

Daniel H. Wilson

#16. That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

Erin Morgenstern

#17. I had made myself believe that the eyes are not the mirror of the soul. Some of the deadliest little female contraptions I ever saw had the faces and the eyes of angels.

John Steinbeck

#18. Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Henri Poincare

#19. One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#20. Fuck me." I said it so softly a butterfly wouldn't have heard me. "Say it again. But this time, own it.

C.D. Reiss

#21. That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.

Dave Keuning

#22. Abortion ... interferes with God's plan-a plan He willed before He created the universe.

Richard Halverson

#23. Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

Brent Scowcroft

#24. I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.

Edith Wharton

#25. Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

William Goyen

#26. When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.

Jeff Foxworthy

#27. Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ahead. Samantha, treading water, wasn't sure what to do, so

John Grisham

#28. It is not that we are short of time ... It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.

Richard Koch

#29. It was then she said I had grown cynical. I said, that I had always been cynical - she had only never called it that. She had said rather that I was brave. She had called me an original. She had seemed to admire me for it. That

Sarah Waters

#30. I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Calvin Klein