Machinelike Quotes

#1. In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

Peter Senge

#2. He imagined that the clock's second hand possessed awareness and knew that it was a second hand and that its job was to around and around inside a circle of numbers forever at the same slow unvarying machinelike rate ...

David Foster Wallace

#3. There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Cathy Rigby

#4. I am a vanity eater, a machinelike eater, a suppresser-of-feels eater.

Melissa Broder

#5. The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. Occultism has no Pope.

Dion Fortune

#7. Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.

Eric Thomas

#8. How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.

Eddie Murphy

#9. There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience ...

John Owen

#10. On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'

Ethan Zuckerman

#11. Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.

Annalee Newitz

#12. I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.

Cate Blanchett

#13. Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

W.G. Sebald

#14. Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Mike Nichols

#15. Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Heinrich Heine