Machines Quotes - Page 33

• I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

  Wilkie Collins

  Children, Ideas, Reform

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.31, e-artnow sro

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• Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? 'Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine

  Demi Lovato

  Real, Land, Way

  Song: La-la Land Machine, Album: Don't Forget, 2008

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• But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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• The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

  Julio Cortazar

  Mean, Stories, Might

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• I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Answers, Kind, Computer

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Eye, Son

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• Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Animal, Significant Change, Eras

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• I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

  David Sedaris

  Noise, Laundry, Significant

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• I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Grandma, Two

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• Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.

  Milan Kundera

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist

  Stephen King

  Technology, Night, Ozone

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• Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

  Terry Pratchett

  Pie, Meat, Hot

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• Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

  Neal Stephenson

  Country, Baby, Sight

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.118, Spectra

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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Waiting, Computer

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• Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Love You, Kids

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• the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Design, Emptiness, Remodeling

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.61, University of Michigan Press

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• I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

  Samuel Beckett

  Stupid, Book, Writing

  "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940". Book by Samuel Beckett, 2009.

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• All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

  Libba Bray

  Morning, Prayer, Simple

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

  Orson Scott Card

  Loyalty, Lonely, Moving

  Orson Scott Card (2005). “Enchantment”, p.172, Del Rey

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• I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.

  Samantha Hunt

  Memories, Remember, Building

  Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Vicious, Cycles, Washing

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• Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Important, Ingredients

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Way, Instinct, Altered

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.69, Psychology Press

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• Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stars, Real, Law

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.70, Psychology Press

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• What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Dream, Country

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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