Factories Quotes - Page 6

• Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Shoes, Daddy

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Parent

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• Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Running, Heaven, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Night, Goes On, Moments

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Rest In Peace, Laughter

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• The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

  David Riesman

  Wife, Culture, Today

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.156, Transaction Publishers

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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• If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

  Margaret Halsey

  Education, Mean, College

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• Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had them anywhere else, even at places in California that claim to have the real thing. There's a cheese factory in Arena, Mazomanie's neighboring town, and they'll give you fresh curds that are so amazing.

  Skylar Grey

  Real, California, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

  Geoff Davis

  Jobs, Creating, Red

  "As Economy Limps Along, Obama Touts Efforts Ahead of Crucial Midterm Elections". www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2010.

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• If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

  Michelle Forbes

  People, Cynical, Unhappy

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• I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Reality, Men, Cards

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• Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Morning, War, Lying

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• Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.

  Neal Shusterman

  Alliances, Body, Slave

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Comforting, Condom, Danger

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

  H. L. Mencken

  Public Opinion, States, Form

  "Notes on Democracy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1926.

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dubai, Oil, India

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• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Couple, War

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Holocaust, Suffering

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• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

  James Sinegal

  Salary, Messages, Stores

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• John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

  Tom Robbins

  Lasts, Said, Novel

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• I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

  Lou Reed

  Art, People, Creative

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• The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods is over.

  Lucy Powell

  Eras, Britain, Workforce

  "Providing education to age 18 is crucial for Britain" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.

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• [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Jobs, Animal

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.89, Penguin

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