Quotes About Well Oiled Machines

#1. They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

Alistair Cross

#2. Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Herman Melville

#3. I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."
Everyone in the room stared at him.
"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.

Scott Lynch

#4. You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

Erwin McManus

#5. Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.

Nana Awere Damoah

#6. I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.

Lauren Oliver

#7. How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#8. The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Sophia Bush

#9. The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.

Nigel Lawson

#10. I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

Gary Oldman

#11. Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Nicholas Lea

#12. Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly.

Ron Kaufman

#13. Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

Warren Christopher

#14. I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.

Chuck Klosterman

#15. Our parents are turning into vampires," Jane's brother had said to her. "Jigsaw-playing vampires.

Liane Moriarty

#16. People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.

Justin Trudeau

#17. In any case, her fight was not over yet - not nearly over. It had only begun. And yes, Cleo would be strong. Just as her father and Emilia had asked her to be. She would be strong. She would reclaim her rightful throne. She would be queen.

Morgan Rhodes