“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...” HumansLawNightUnderstandingImaginationPowerfulPiecesMaterialsColdTerribleTasksMachinesComplicatedFedsEnginesIrelandMachineryTerrible ThingsGrindEducation SystemPredeterminedRuthlessnessEnglish Education Author:Patrick Pearse
“My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.” ThinkingWayTogetherMotherUnderstandingPiecesWindVery GoodSettingSettingsWheelsCompositionMachineryWrong WayDiscordGood WomanCriminality Book:My Brilliant Career Source: My Brilliant Career
“A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.” TryingChildrenTwoMovingCareersPiecesWindCoupleLosingUltimateComplexesSensitiveCooperationMachineryMoving Parts Book:I Can't Believe I Said That! Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.” GovernmentRunningPiecesSweetHorseCommitteesMachineryCamels Book:The Far Call Source: The Far Call
“The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.” LittlesDoneHumanityIndividualBitsWorkPiecesPrideLittle BitMachinesMeritDefectsMachinery Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.” ArtGonePiecesMonkMachineryBolts Author:Tom Waits
“The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.” PiecesWheelsReverenceBowsMachineryInventorSpinningExquisite Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works