Threshing Machine Quotes

#1. Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

Margaret Atwood

#2. To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Clyde Tombaugh

#3. The White House is saying Donald Trump has 'zero percent chance' of being elected. Isn't that a little high?

David Letterman

#4. The most important qualification of a process analyst is not a facility for sending out information, but a facility for receiving it. Good process analysts naturally want to understand everything thoroughly.

Jakob Freund

#5. Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognize the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

Marlon James

#8. What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Steve Jobs

#9. PRIOR (An awestruck whisper): God almighty.
Very Steven Spielberg.

Tony Kushner

#10. Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.

Justin Broadrick

#11. If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

Joan Dye Gussow

#12. Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Flannery O'Connor

#13. Who acts in haste repents at leisure.

Aesop

#14. The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

Randy Falco

#15. Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

Louisa May Alcott