The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
I believe that the power which the spleen possesses of regulating its amount of blood depends entirely upon mechanical properties.
Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.
I've always focused on technology and growth and don't have the core competency to do liability management - I'm a mechanical engineer.
Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.
I didn't do much in things mechanical in high school, except learn to square dance and other such activities.
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?
I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the heart are rare to come by.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
Like strange mechanical grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
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.
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
I took mechanical drawing, geometry and typing at high school, the latter because that is what they did with smart girls in those days!
Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.
Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.
We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
I guess bowling is pretty mechanical. It's kind of a natural motion, but you have to stick within those mechanics.
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
Though films need retakes, I have always hated them because they tend to become mechanical.
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
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