Machines Quotes

Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Our bodies are the time machine.

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.

An office is a machine for dying.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.

I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we have about build a faster-than-light spaceship.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

Language is the machine of the poet.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy

The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

The machine conceals the machinations.

A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes.

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.

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.