Quotes of: Machine-age Keyword

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

John Stockwell

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.

Joey Dunlop

Dr. Ellie Sattler: Doctor Grant's not machine compatible.

Jurassic Park

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Kip Thorne

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

Jack Horner

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

ATM Machine: Feed me a stray cat.

American Psycho

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

Arno Penzias

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

Lydia Lunch

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.

Greek

It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This i...

C. JoyBell C.

Riff: We gotta stand up to them Doc; it's important. Doc: Fighting over a little piece of street is so important? Action: To us it is! Doc: To hoodlums it is! Action: Who're you callin' a hoodlum? Doc: War councils... Action: Don't start, Doc. Doc: ....

West Side Story

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the most massive and ambitious undertakings are moti...

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a...

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken mac...

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have prov...

The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Volume 1

To count the stones losing count is the sense of our life: the algebra of our displacements. To follow paths losing sense is the circumvolution, the evolution: the logic of our moments. But. No. There is no symmetry in our acts. Never the chance of s...

Of Time and Goats

...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too... More than this, they were right in the fact that the plastic culture - modern man, the mechanist...

Pollution & the Death of Man

A magnificent fireworks began: magnesium flares blindingly white, yellow, and then red, like dying stars; straight bright red streaks of machine-gun fire; elegant and clear lines of bullets traced like fugitive neon light; and scarlet, sinister rugge...

The Pillar of Salt