Machines Quotes - Page 34

• Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Order, Mad

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• I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Thinking, Waiting, Breathe

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.104, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

  Eduardo Galeano

  Rights, Air, Knives

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• Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

  Kathy Acker

  Literature, Levels

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.12, Grove Press

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• Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

  Slash

  Views, Voice, Perspective

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

  Alan Moore

  Dancing, Forever, Phantoms

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• Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machine was ready). But they broke him anyway.

  William Goldman

  Pain, Eye, Effort

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.147, A&C Black

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• Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It had a bead for every summer I'd been at Camp Half-Blood, but since last year I'd also kept a sand dollar on the cord. My father had given it to me for my fifteenth birthday. He'd told me I would know when to "spend it," but so far I hadn't figured out what he meant. All I knew that it didn't fit the vending machines in the school cafeteria.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Father, School

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• The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Rain, Ceilings, Towers

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• What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Daughter, Waiting, Sock

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• Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

  Audre Lorde

  Dust, Trying, Speak

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

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• Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.

  Eoin Colfer

  Teacher, Falling In Love, Princess

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• Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists

  Woody Allen

  Eye, Rays, Dentist

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• Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

  Henri Bergson

  Responsibility, Men, Hands

  "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion". Book by Henri Bergson, 1932.

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• If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.

  Scott Adams

  Home, Creativity, Mean

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• It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Critical Moments, Painting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

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• Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Stupid, Fall

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• We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eggs, White, Sugar

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• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.

  Emma Goldman

  Powerful, Hate, Heart

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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• My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didn’t have slots for those.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Dad, Black, Cards

  S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.60, Feiwel & Friends

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• How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don’t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun’s wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still. .She’s unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine— “Okay, I get it!” I yelled.

  Rick Riordan

  Wrath, Killers, Sun

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Giants, Opinion, Devices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Soul, Brain, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

  Ronald Wright

  Suicide, Compelling Reason, Interest

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