Best machines & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.”

“We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.”

Source: Cannibals and Christians

“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.”

Made Kids Faces Secret Records Alive Streets Rocks Band Machines Paid Guitar Debt Hungry Contact Rock N Roll Flash Unseen Blades Hustle Hunted

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.”

Ends Sometimes Hard Feelings Faces Song Voice Emotion Inspire Months Machines Edges Deeper Sensual Guts Strings Cds Lyrical Softness Dig Deep Lush Strings Attached

Author:Kathy Mattea

“Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.”

Faces Fall Machines Edited

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.”

Ifs Jobs Faces Felt Fronts Safe Machines Management Shoulders Friendly Construction Metals Friendly Faces

Author:Stanley Bing

“I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing”

Faces Humanity Born Prayer Machines Freeze Cogs

Author:Louis MacNeice

“At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.”

People Years Faces House Walks Couple Office Built Machines Size Time Machine Astounded

Author:Gregory Nicotero

“Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.”

“People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.”

People Knows Way Needs Wells Enough Faces Felt Steps Machines Smile Sake Hills Uncomfortable Exposed Arena

Author:Lauryn Hill

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.”

Ends Earth Faces Black Mistake Machines Wipe Epoch

Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.”

People Years Made Wanted Faces Levels Careers Havens Majors Understood Machines Majority Incredibles Access Labels Distribution

Author:DJ Shadow

“I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.”

Faces Planets Machines Killing Champion Unstoppable

Author:Dean Ambrose

“The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.”

Faces Machines

Author:Allen Grossman

“I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.”

Wells Faces Enjoy Realizing Machines

Author:Kate Winslet

“I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.”

Feels Persons Moments Faces Break Machines Innocent Crucial Breaking Down Inadequate Grind Crucial Moments Innocent Person

Author:May Sarton

“Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.”

Trying Faces Given Pieces Dog Fit Machines Washing Ancestry Rubber Pastime Gargoyles Dexterity Washing Machines Toffee

Book:Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)

Source: Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)

“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.”

Feels Believe Stills Enough Body Hands Eye Faces Next Lost Trouble Happenings Machines Drawing His Eyes Nerves Recognizing Mike Slot Machines

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

“For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.”

Men Film Faces Sitting Machines Sake Radio Tails Monkeys Be A Man Bland

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.”

Eye Faces Hate Laughing Cold Logic Machines Mad Bounds Broke Her Eyes

Author:Veronica Roth

“I’ll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it’s time?” “I got it,” one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo remembered. She wore camo pants, a tank top that showed off her buff arms, and a red bandanna over her mop of dark hair. Except for the smiley-face Band-Aid on her chin, she looked like one of those female action heroes, like any second she was going to grab a machine gun and start mowing down evil aliens. “Cool,” Leo said. “I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.”

“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.”

Source: 1984

“Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?”

“You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.”

Faces Winning Speak Social Loses Degrees Models Capacity Machines Transformation Critical Vain Impulse Revolt Theorists Negation Social Transformation

Author:Fredric Jameson

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.”

“We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out”

Ifs Believe Faces Desire Causes Hurt Pay Machines Moved Constant Affection Disappointment Partners Hopefully Intensity Wiser Selected Moved On Casinos Slot Machines Jackpot

Author:Paul Dini

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