Mechanical Quotes

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

I just write mechanical things.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.