Machines Quotes - Page 35

• The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

  George Orwell

  Smart, Book, Men

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

  David Sedaris

  Gun, America, Safe

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• I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spring, Order, Flying

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

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• The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fall, Perfect

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• I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

  Charles Yu

  Hurt, Pain, Moving

  FaceBook post by Charles Yu from Dec 06, 2014

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• Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.

  Catherine Fisher

  Wise, Dream, Swans

  Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.205, Penguin

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• A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

  C. S. Lewis

  Creating, World, Creatures

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Needs, Remember, Time Machine

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.82, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Class, America

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Leo dropped into the pool and approched the cage. "Hola, Tia. Little bit of trouble?" She [Hera] crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation. "Don't inspect me like I'm one of your machines, Leo Valdez. Get me out of here!

  Rick Riordan

  Arms, Littles, Tias

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• The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

  Douglas Coupland

  Past, Bulls, Glue

  "The gum thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, September 25, 2007.

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• Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Queens, Nice, Sleep

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• Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

  Rick Riordan

  Forever, Lasts, Lost Hero

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• a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Skills, Cogs

  Yukio Mishima, Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1977). “Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan”

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• you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Mean, Love Is

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• Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.

  Justin Cronin

  Rain, Men, Light

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• A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

  Umberto Eco

  Work, Narrators, Should

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• Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Destiny, Choices

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.200, Penguin

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• You can't trust machines. You can't trust people.

  Julie Anne Peters

  People

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• Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.

  Nora Roberts

  May, Causes, Individual

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb THE IN DEATH COLLECTION”, p.505, Penguin

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• That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.

  Richard Kadrey

  Issues, Daddy, Scream

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• To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Animal, Mountain

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Men, Curves

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Mind, Pinball

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.99, Anchor

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• Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

  Laurie R. King

  Jobs, Book, Hymns

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