Top 100 Quotes About Machinery
#1. If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
Nikola Tesla
#2. She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.
Alexander McCall Smith
#3. If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.
Robert E. Murray
#4. Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
Frank B. Kellogg
#5. The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
John Moody
#7. A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.
Gordon R. Dickson
#8. Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones
#9. Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
John Burnside
#10. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. About that mystifying enthusiasm a million years ago for turning over as many human activities as possible to machinery: What could that have been but yet another acknowledgment by people that their brains were no damn good?
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
Herman Wouk
#13. The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.
C.S. Lewis
#14. In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
Alberto Manguel
#15. Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
Michael Caine
#16. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature
Carl Sagan
#17. Actually, he told me later that I had turned him gay . . . by taking codeine again. And I said, "You know, I never read that warning on the label." I thought it said heavy machinery, not homosexuality - turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along! Turning
Carrie Fisher
#18. I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
Bernie Mac
#19. If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#20. Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
Carl Sagan
#21. Fitzgerald could take care of herself. Chapter 3 For the third morning in a row, Maggie was awakened by the sound of men and machinery outside her windows.
Nora Roberts
#22. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
Paul Newman
#23. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.
Alasdair Gray
#24. The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
Richard P. Feynman
#25. I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.
Morley Safer
#26. The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.
Ellen G. White
#27. The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.
Charles Babbage
#28. I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.
Bruce Dickinson
#29. Here in a place where there's just wind an waves and light, and the intricate machinery that keeps the flame burning and the lantern turning. Always turning. Always looking over its shoulder
M.L. Stedman
#30. In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.
Deepak Chopra
#31. I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
Adam Rapp
#32. The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#33. I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
Andrew Denton
#34. All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
Neil Peart
#35. A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#36. Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery.
Gregory Benford
#37. Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
Henry Ward Beecher
#38. Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.
P.G. Wodehouse
#39. The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#40. The drives you take for granted ("I'm a hetero/homosexual," "I'm attracted to children/adults," "I'm aggressive/not aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.
David Eagleman
#41. Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
Bernard Beckett
#42. A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would be two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is just dead machinery.
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
E. Stanley Jones
#44. Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
Milton Sapirstein
#45. Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#46. This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
Keith Richards
#47. To see distinctly the machinery
the wheels and pinions
of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
Edgar Allan Poe
#48. Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.
Sigmar Gabriel
#49. My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
Dashiell Hammett
#50. If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
Cesar Romero
#51. There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
Elliott Gould
#52. I believe ... that security declines as security machinery expands.
E.B. White
#53. Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.
Clarence John Laughlin
#54. I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
Manny Pacquiao
#55. In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.
Brian Selznick
#56. The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Robert Benchley
#57. I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.
Haruki Murakami
#58. There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.
Bruce Bartlett
#59. Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#60. I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Lucy Larcom
#61. We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.
Tom Bentley
#62. This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#63. Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.
Neal A. Maxwell
#64. For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.
Judi Bari
#65. I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
Charles Bukowski
#66. An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
#67. Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Paul Valery
#68. Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Suzanne Curchod
#69. I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
Gary Numan
#70. I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
Henry Bessemer
#71. It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.
Moncure D. Conway
#72. Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#73. We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
Howard Rheingold
#74. In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
Max Von Sydow
#75. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
Nikola Tesla
#76. Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.
Charles Babbage
#77. That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.
Saul Bellow
#78. Be uncomfortable; be sand, not oil, to the machinery of the world.
Gunter Eich
#79. We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
Sri Aurobindo
#80. People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.
Robyn Hitchcock
#81. An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.
Karl Marx
#82. As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
Mario Batali
#83. Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#84. Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
John Maynard Keynes
#85. I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.
Philip Treacy
#86. The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.
Eric Kierans
#88. Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.
David Friedman
#89. So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
Catherynne M Valente
#90. The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.
Maggie Nelson
#91. Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.
Lemony Snicket
#92. Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#93. As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built,
as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?
Natasha Tsakos
#94. Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
Peter Dinklage
#95. People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.
Dalai Lama
#96. Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.
J. William Fulbright
#97. The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.
Jorge Luis Borges
#98. By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.
Shigeru Yoshida
#99. True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.
Frances Harper
#100. Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann
