Quotes of: Mechanism Keyword

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

Les Dawson

Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn.

Angelina Assanti

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

Andrew Vachss

If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.

Terry Zwigoff

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.

Timothy F. Cahill

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

P. J. O'Rourke

Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I hav...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

I have a subconscious list of rules for how reality should work. I did not develop these rules on purpose, and most of them don’t make sense – which is disturbing when you consider that they are an attempt to govern the behavior of reality – bu...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.

God Does Not Play Dice

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Seth Godin

A mechanical toothbrush is the greatest oral device in the history of the sex toy industry.

$3.33

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

Carnie Wilson

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

David E. Kelley

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

Josh Fox

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Peter Capaldi

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

Pete Sampras

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

Robert A. Heinlein

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Kenneth L. Pike