It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.
We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.
Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
I hope for some sort of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.
My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
Once you grow up life is like a washing machine. But one must always secretly have a Peter Pan mojo.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
