Top 100 Factory Quotes
#2. We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
Lewis Mumford
#3. Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.
Harvey Fierstein
#4. Hollywood is a mirage factory ...
Anais Nin
#5. I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit; it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.
Wes Borland
#6. My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
Brian Dennehy
#7. We have waged war, or rather let a war be waged, against all of the animals we eat. This war is new and has a name: factory farming.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#9. In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.
Jeremy Clarkson
#10. I'm a factory-floor actor: I learn the lines, I get there on time.
Rhys Ifans
#11. The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!
Gary Larson
#12. physical space has for a century been used to facilitate and enforce efficiency and specialization. Along with factory assembly lines, the architectural frames of white-collar work have evolved to maximize efficiency.
Stanley McChrystal
#13. People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
Pele
#14. You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
Elizabeth Warren
#15. Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
Bill Gates
#16. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Elizabeth Warren
#17. Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.
Robert Reed
#18. He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words Keep Calm and Carry On.
Natasha Solomons
#19. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
Theodore Roosevelt
#20. Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars.
Blake Lively
#21. I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
John Corbett
#22. It's much easier for people to compare wages or identify bad employers or discuss bad labor practices in the Internet economy than it was in, say, a factory environment, where that stuff wasn't usually published or available.
Leila Janah
#23. I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Philip K. Dick
#24. In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.
Stephen Mitchell
#25. The philanthropist can never forget classes and callings. He says, with a modest swagger, 'I have invited twenty-five factory hands to tea.' If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.
Stephen Pagliuca
#27. I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.
Dick Vitale
#28. The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge
#29. However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a factory: just a meaningless production of words.
Alice Driver
#30. When new students tried an experiment that was particularly successful in terms of explosive force, the result was often a cross between a major factory refit and a game of Hunt-the-other-Kidney.
Terry Pratchett
#31. The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
Willa Cather
#32. With its towering smokestack, it looked like a factory built to produce nightmares in mass quantities.
Joe Hill
#33. Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
James Sinegal
#34. The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.
Matt Mullenweg
#35. The other is Shenzhen, the southern city most known for electronics manufacturing - it is the location of the largest Foxconn factory, where iPhones and iPads, among other devices, are assembled.
Clay Shirky
#36. Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.
Matthew Scully
#37. But these factory people, who on earth wears cotton that can afford linen?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#38. Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.
Tom Verlaine
#39. Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.
Armistead Maupin
#40. When I am once again whole, I shall visit those factory people; I have deep and abiding convictions concerning social action.
Anonymous
#41. If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#42. Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
John Calvin
#43. The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'
Tom Coburn
#44. When you look at the sky, you must know that you look at the cosmic factory which enabled you to exist as a live being!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. My father always says one thing leads to another. It certainly does. I started out to buy a friend a birthday present, and I end up trying to get a factory to go with it....
Jean Merrill
#46. I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.
Jason Wu
#47. I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?
Richard Hugo
#48. I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.
Kanye West
#49. Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.
Leonard Boswell
#50. When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams
#51. The New Deal began on March 25th, 1911. The day that the Triangle factory burned.
Frances Perkins
#52. Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.
John Jay Chapman
#53. Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.
Leila Janah
#54. If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.
C.D. Wright
#55. Inside, I'm assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment's hardwired loudspeaker. There's one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang
Adam Johnson
#56. Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#57. There aren't any buts," said Bill. "That's the whole point of being a writer, isn't it? If I wanted buts, I'd go and work in a fucking but factory.
Nick Hornby
#58. At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.
Dean Koontz
#59. I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.
Daniel Tosh
#60. Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors ... Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Andrew Carnegie
#61. I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory.
Tony Fadell
#62. In the future a typical factory will host three workers: a man, a computer and a dog. The computer will do all the work. The man will feed the dog. And the dog's job? To bite the man - if he touches the computer.
Todd G. Buchholz
#63. My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
#64. We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#65. Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
Natalia Vodianova
#66. The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.
Ray Davies
#67. I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.
Rose Schneiderman
#68. If Pietrok-111 was a one-horse town, Pietrok-112 was the glue factory where that horse went to die.
Claire North
#69. --perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory, another myth like original sin, which you were outfitted with at birth and could somehow lose, like men high and low sometimes lost their humanity--
Bob Shacochis
#70. As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.
Kaoru Ishikawa
#71. 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
Matt Mullenweg
#72. Competition forces factory owners to mechanize production, so as to reduce labor costs, but while this is to the short-term advantage of the individual firm, the overall effect of such mechanization is actually to drive the overall rate of profit of all firms down.
David Graeber
#73. So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.
Anonymous
#74. My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.
Shea Hembrey
#75. The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.
Pamela Love
#76. Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards ... the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill ... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
Joseph Goebbels
#77. At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
Carl Rakosi
#78. A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.
Shawn Lukas
#79. As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.
John Desmond Bernal
#80. I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
Ian Curtis
#81. Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang, 'Happy Birthday.
Steven Wright
#82. His face was an exploding zit-factory below a Brylcreem-loaded Bobby Rydell duck's ass.
Stephen King
#83. A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.
Seth Shostak
#84. When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
Billy Joel
#85. A young and clueless second-lieutenant straight out of the factory, I was very much surplus to the requirements.
Patrick Hennessey
#86. Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
#87. If you'd have told me two weeks ago that one day I'd be part of a not-so-merry band of Necros seeking to exterminate a couple of other magic-born gangs, I'd have given you directions to the strait-jacket factory.
David Estes
#88. Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror.
But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.
Peter J. Leithart
#89. The human heart is a factory of idols ... Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
John Calvin
#90. I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.
Per Petterson
#91. Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
Bernard Crick
#92. When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much - sometimes ten times as much - as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.
T.R. Reid
#93. The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory.
P. J. O'Rourke
#94. People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.
Michel Auder
#95. We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.
Martin Luther
#96. One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#97. With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes.
Susan Ohanian
#98. Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
Casey Affleck
#99. Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."
Elizabeth Taylor
#100. Today was just another shit day in a life that sometimes felt like a factory specializing in the construction of shit days.
Tommy Wallach
