“I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?” MenDifferentGuyWomenForgetCarBuiltMachinesComplainingCoffeeCupsEmsForget ItHysteriaCoffee CupAnother Woman Author:Charles Bukowski
“When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.” MenWantStillsDreamOrderSleepForgetHatredMachinesSimplicityNostalgiaIdeologyMaturityBreastsNever ForgetNursePrimitiveCheeseElectricityRidiculeForget ItCradleSteamInfancyLegendaryAntiquesMorbidManiacsWoolRusticWant To SleepDecrepitSpinner Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.” DoeHas BeensHomePurposeForgetPoetHigherToolsMachinesComplexesFlightFasterExcitementAviationToysSolePredictionsGardenerBarbariansUnnoticedNavigatorsNew Toys Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"” PeopleKnowsTwoHumorFunnyLinesForgetFrontsStandingOkayMachinesThings To DoSecondsCashForget ItFree Time Author:Jim Gaffigan
“You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.” WritingSongMemoriesForgetMachinesTrackNever ForgetTime Machine Author:Dido Armstrong
“Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.” MeanRealTodayNamesWealthForgetBrainRightsLandBuildingSourceIntellectualMachinesPropertyBrandsBoardsReally MeanPatentsIntellectual PropertyBrand Names Author:Charles Handy
“I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.” ThinkingWritingForgetMachinesDown AndMelodyForget ItAnswering Machines Author:Britney Spears
“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.” PeopleKnowsMindDoeI CanPainLostSoundForgetSecretQualityColorProveMachinesOrganizationImportanceWingsIntensityThrustKnackUncannyHummingbirdsChurning Author:Dave Eggers
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.” IfsMenBelieveMadeI BelieveForgetPrayingMachinesUnhappyMade ItGreat MenCried Book:The Machine Stops Source: The Machine Stops
“I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsProblemStrongWaitingWaterForgetCitiesDegreesRainRiversMachinesSeasonsPatientForgottenRageBridgesBrownCommerceRemindersFrontiersBuilderConfrontingDestroyersSullenWorshippersDwellersUntamedUntrustworthy Author:T. S. Eliot
“Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.” WritingLostForgetAdviceSubjectsPaperMachinesCraftsCopiesSheetsPublishersElderly Author:E. B. White