Top 659 Mechanical Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.
I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.
The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.
Kissing's a very organic and mechanical process. It's like a slap. You slap your co-star once and it's done.
I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, the JTEC.
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
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.
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.
I received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, then graduated with a masters in nuclear engineering.
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.
I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.
I can do anything onstage. Here's the misconception: You could record an album called 'The Best of Styx.' And all you would have to do is pay the individual songwriters a mechanical royalty.
When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
Hip flexibility is genetic to a degree, and the most gifted hitters have won both the genetic and mechanical lottery.
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
My father worked as a mechanical draftsman at Mazagaon Docks and is a Catholic. My mum was a Muslim, so my parents broke quite a few rules to get married.
We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
Going to a gym or playing a sport should not be mechanical. There should be an emotional attachment to it.
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don't believe in second take at all.
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.
When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
My father and I share a passion for how things work, which in my case took the form of schoolboy fascination with machines and mechanical contraptions.
I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
A mechanical brow pencil can create the appearance of fine brow hairs.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.
Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!
