Machinery famous quotes

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
-- Antonio Damasio

#Self #Unexpected #Machinery

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature
-- Carl Sagan

#Cosmos #Machinery #Exquisite

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Should #Machinery #Treated

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Prayer #Church #Machinery

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
-- Charles Stross

#Idiot #Malfunction #Machinery

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
-- Dashiell Hammett

#Monkeys #Way #Machinery

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
-- David Ricardo

#Wages #Commodity #Machinery

Machinery makes men like itself.
-- Gerald Stanley Lee

#Men #Machines #Machinery

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.
-- Gerald Stanley Lee

#Mind #World #Machinery

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.
-- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

#Climate Change #Disruption #Machinery

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,
-- Harry A. Blackmun

#Machinery #This Day

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.
-- Harry A. Blackmun

#Death Penalty #Penalties #Machinery

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.
-- Henry Ford

#Machinery #Goods

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.
-- Herbert Spencer

#Liberty #Citizens #Machinery

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
-- Herman Wouk

#Men #Pressure #Machinery

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Modification #Machinery #Heredity

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
-- Ken Kesey

#Memories #Machinery

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Complicated #Machinery #Unpredictable

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Oil #Doe #Machinery

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
-- Laurie R. King

#Aversion #Machinery #Exception

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
-- Leon Kass

#Disposition #Machinery

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

#Car #Political #Machinery

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
-- Nikola Tesla

#Generations #Driven #Machinery

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
-- Nikola Tesla

#Men #Succeed #Machinery

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.
-- Orison Swett Marden

#Cheer #Oil #Machinery

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.
-- Philander Chase Johnson

#Monkeys #Machinery

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
-- Samuel R. Delany

#Strange #Reputation #Machinery

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.
-- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

#War #Rooms #Machinery

The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.
-- Michael Seresin

#Red #Sony #Machinery

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
-- Hugh Casson

#Art #Roles #Machinery