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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? — Andy Warhol

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The universe looks more and more like a great thought rather than a great machine. — James Hopwood Jeans

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. — Marilyn Monroe

I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart? — Sebastian Barry

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. — Bobby Fischer

The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought. — Dean Radin

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it. — Mariah Carey

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix. — Kanye West

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless. — Catherine Keener

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. — Alan Kay

Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human. — Puff Daddy

I emit, I hiss a rather tired and gentle word like "shit", then tear this page from the machine. it's your. — Charles Bukowski

Bragging that you had sex with a prostitute is like bragging that you got Doritos out of a vending machine. — Natasha Leggero

I would like to specialize in being an immortal invulnerable killing machine who craves the blood of the living. — Cassandra Clare

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. — Fred W. Friendly

I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. — B.C. Forbes

In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe. — Don DeLillo

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved. — Tom Wilkinson

The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in. — Torsten Wiesel

The fake giggle is not that bad."
My friend grunted in disagreement. "It sounds like Miss Piggy has a machine gun stuck in her throat. — Samantha Young

A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the images in a slot machine. — Denis Johnson

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick — Charles Petzold

It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot, — Igor Sikorsky

I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine. — Puff Daddy

Almost everything is like a machine. — Ray Dalio

Think like a machine instead of a boy. — Orson Scott Card

I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine. — Manish Dayal

I'd like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It'd be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it's exact purpose! — Mitch Hedberg

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music. — Dave Grohl

Cause whatever you love
could be taken away,
So live like it's your dying day. — Machine Gun Kelly

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. — William Carlos Williams

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. — Margaret Atwood

Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem. — Philip K. Dick

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. — Chuck Palahniuk

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. — Ray Dalio

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine. — Matt Tong

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer. — Robert C. Solomon

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris ... there are so many artists and producers. — Wynter Gordon

It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine. — Lois Greiman

But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way. — Herman Melville

We see Stage Two mostly when people believe they cannot act creatively, where jobs are so mechanized that they feel like part of a machine. — Dave Logan

All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine.
(on Bach) — Arnold Bax

Were you always like this?'
'Like what?'
'A madman. With a time machine.'
'Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine. — Neil Gaiman

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul. — Alexander Payne

The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today. — Tom Hodgkinson

If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine. — Douglas Coupland

The washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace. — Thomas Harris

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine. — Carol Rifka Brunt

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless. — Monica Murphy

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning. — Dana Gould

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. — Iris Murdoch

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

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do. — Andy Warhol

He's got a laugh like a machine gun firing through velvet. — Libba Bray

A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something — John Gardner

The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine. — Frederick Lenz

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine. — China Chow

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one! — Arno Penzias

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine. — Margaret Atwood

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The economy is like a machine. — Ray Dalio

Life without a pasta machine is like life without music! — Margo Vader

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it. — Carolyn Heilbrun

She was like some kind of Energizer Bunny nonstop bitch machine ... She needed three more husbands, so we could all take shifts listening to her. — Victor Gischler

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine. — Taylor Hawkins

Together we kept that machine greased like a stripper in a plastic pool full of baby oil. — Jamie McGuire

The girl who signed her papers in lipstick
leans against the drugstore, smoking,
brushing her hair like a machine — Billy Collins

If you treat what you value most in life more like a garden and less like a vending machine, you'll probably be happier. (from You Oughta Know By Now) — Brian P. Cleary

We stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret like a poker hand — Janet Fitch

I've been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul. — Kate Chopin

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships. — Ray Dalio

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree? — Douglas Wilson

I'm like a one-woman protest machine. — Lydia Lunch

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it. — John Sandford

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two ... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism. — Doris Lessing

Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car. — Christopher Poole

I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me ... just like everyone else. — Laura Bickle

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. — Bertrand Russell

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ... — Henrik Ibsen

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. — Helmut Jahn

God isn't like a candy machine. We can't insert a good deed and receive a blessing. Then we'd be in charge, not him. — Sarah Sundin

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly. — Eddie Murphy

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine. — Sam Altman

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go. — Ambrose Bierce

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show. — Anne Waldman

I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine. — Milton Berle

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)
— Jaclyn Moriarty

I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine. — Lily Cole

Jesus says God isn't like a gumball machine; he's more like the wind: unpredictable, uncontrollable, no more containable than wind in a bottle. — Skye Jethani

To operate a machine one must operate like a machine. Using a machine to do what we cannot do, we find we must do what the machine does. — James P. Carse

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence. — Vikas Swarup

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. — James Jeans

I felt like laundry in a washing machine, when all I wanted was to be put on and become her favourite shirt. — Isabelle Ronin

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. — Na

Some days I feel like a breast stuck in a mammography machine. — Holly Patrone