A Quote by Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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Beautiful Chance Encounter Machine Operating Sewing Table Umbrella

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Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
French - Poet
April 4, 1846 - November 24, 1870

In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

H. R. Giger

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Alice Walker

When you hear 'From the Other Side,' it's like being on an operating table. Suddenly, you're on the ceiling looking down at the doctors who are fighting for you. Are you gonna get a second chance or not?

King Diamond

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

Nathaniel Branden

I've never been able to keep track of an umbrella, but then my dad gave me this fancy umbrella. It was in his car, and I had again lost some awful Duane Reade disaster umbrella. It was my first adult umbrella that wasn't from a drugstore, and I have left it all over New York, and every time, I went back to get it.

Cristin Milioti

When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.

George Pattison

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

Frank Carson

I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

Warren Mundine

I tote around that big ol' sewing machine with me everywhere I go.

Bianca Belair

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

Jeff Bezos

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Mason Cooley

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

Marcel Pagnol

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

Ben Shahn

This game in a lot of ways, isn't that complex. You bring energy to the table and you've got a chance. You bring fundamentals to the table and you've got a chance. It's not always about scheme and all that magic-behind-the-curtain stuff.

Sean McDermott

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.