“Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.” BodyMotherMachinesDrivenInsaneDenialMagnificentGarbageWombAvoidedDump Author:Marion Woodman
“Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.” FirstsLittlesHas BeensPurposeSpeakCreativeRocksInvolvedBandBeatsMachinesInstrumentsGuitarDrivenRhythmEtcProgressiveBassEmulateHelmArticulationInstrumentation Author:Justin Broadrick
“The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.” ReasonAmericaGivenNationsGenerationsPolicyBuildingKeysStandardsMachinesDrivenReason WhyMakersFactoriesAncestorConsumingIrresponsiblePolicy Makers Author:Kurt Richebacher
“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingTogetherCoursesCommunityTechnologyCreativeDogDesignBuildingLike YouInternetMachinesBasesDeeperDrivenCodeFreakCapitalistThrust Author:Terence McKenna
“I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.” RealDreamRunningWalksCarJokesMachinesDrivenReal LifeFancyBikePatheticFancy Cars Author:Bipasha Basu
“My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.” KnowsWantMotherUniverseWishDivineAmbitionGloryMachinesBlessedCalmDrivenBoatServantReferringHarbourDivine Mother Author:Swami Vivekananda
“I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.” WayPoliticalOrderSocialOptimismMachinesDrivenStatementsSuspectsAestheticExclusiveSocial OrderPopulistPolitical ChangeRolls Royce Author:J. G. Ballard
“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.” ThinkingMenHumansHumanityPassionRaceAcceptingCareersMachinesBasesDrivenBrilliantObsessionHuman RaceMidstCarelessDeep DownHolmesMindlessInbreds Book:The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen
“I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.” TurnsWaterWhiteAirMinutesColdLogicMachinesHotDrivenMetalsSteamElusivePouringCold WaterRotation Book:We Source: We
“People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.” PeopleThinkingStatesAuthorityMassMachinesFinalsDrivenFree SocietyFrenzyPathology Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel
“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.” NeedsKindLittlesStatesSufferingActorsBitsCasesTvsLittle BitMachinesCreatorDrivenProducers Author:Rose Byrne