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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

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. — Archibald Wavell

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. — Rabih Alameddine

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible. — John Leeson

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. — Damien Hirst

The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys. — Mary Lascelles

the world: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. . — John Gardner

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. — Elizabeth Bowen

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. — Joel Salatin

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. — Ernest Hemingway,

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part. — Leonardo Da Vinci

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F.R. Leavis

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

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought. — Brian Kernighan

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill

Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one. — Tom Vanderbilt

Like strange mechanical grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind. — Oscar Wilde

I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more ... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical ... I want less melody. — Sufjan Stevens

Behavior of a system whose parts display a choice cannot be explained by mechanical or biological models. — Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. — G.I. Gurdjieff

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

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If you can make a mechanical horse, why wouldn't you make it a unicorn? — A.W. Exley

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. — Philipp Meyer

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed. — Margaret J. Wheatley

A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same. — Michael Dolan

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms. — Voltaire

Dear God, grant me the violence to crush mine enemies.
Dear God, give me mechanical lungs, for when I'm drowning. — Aaron W. Rockwell

Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development. — Alexey Suetin

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. — John Moody

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word. — Amit Ray

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. — Idries Shah

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff. — Adam Carolla

Information Theory would inform a mechanical calculator in much the same way as, say, fluid dynamics would inform the hull of a ship. — Neal Stephenson

I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical. — M. Leighton

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive. — Craig MacDonald

Pressing a note on the harpsichord's keyboard would, via an elaborate mechanical action, — Music Sales

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. — Kenny Chesney

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. — Bruce Lee

She glided away towards the lift, which seemed hardly needed, with its earthly and mechanical paraphernalia, to bear her up to the higher levels. — Anthony Powell

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

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly. — Mark Frauenfelder

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. — David Ortiz

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting. — Peter Jackson

No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake. — John Paxton

The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering. — Christian Cantrell

There's nothing in the mechanical world that matches the sophistication, complexity, and multi-tasking ability of the foot — Michael Sandler

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. — August Krogh

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

What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous — Jeanette Winterson

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial ... The camera ... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw

If your objective is to tell time, you will not buy a mechanical watch. You have the time on your phone. — Ricardo Guadalupe

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical. — Grimes

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke. — P.G. Wodehouse

Form the habit of writing your thoughts. The mechanical element assists the power of concentration. — T. Sharper Knowlson

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — William Tenn

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 ... — John Steinbeck

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery. — Nicholas G. Carr

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical. — Carla Bruni

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. — Harold Ramis

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities. — Adam Ferrara

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

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living. — Peter Abrahams

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror. — Harold Edmund Stearns

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands. — Evan Glodell

We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response ... mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves. — Alfred Bester

a huddle of robot sheep bleating their terror with mechanical lungs of a hundred horsepower. — Sinclair Lewis

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. — Colin Angle

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. — John Muir

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. — Conrad Wolfram

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual. — Bruno Dumont

Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins. — Belsebuub

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass. — Bill Vaughan

The process of mind is mechanical, and the data of the thoughts and imagination can be changed, by changing the experiences and impressions of life. — Roshan Sharma

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one. — Charlie Kimball

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down! — Garrison Wynn

Somewhere high overhead on the other side of the freighter, metal ground against metal making a sound like angry mechanical whales fucking. — Damon Suede

If You'r a Mechanical Engineer Don't Feel So Proud, Because You Can Repair Everything Except Your Own Heart"!!! — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present. — Paul Schrader

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. — Andrew Vachss

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway,

Form, which should be the clean-cut expression of mechanical excellence, has become sensuous and organic. — Raymond Loewy

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. — Robert A. Heinlein

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas. — Clement Greenberg

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. — Seth Godin

If willpower is required to achieve this goal, that's how you know you don't want it enough on a deep, organic level. Mechanical — Augusten Burroughs

once in a pocket, a solid mechanical thrill — Lee Child

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind. — William Pene Du Bois

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh. — Mahatma Gandhi

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. — P.D. Ouspensky

I'm crazy about cars, about boats, about airplanes, about anything mechanical - I'm just a boy, really, and my clients are like boys, too. — Richard Mille

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. — Daisaku Ikeda

Don't bother this love is a lie.
I'm a chemical kid,
You're a mechanical bride. — Chemical Kids And Mechanical Brides By Pierce The Veil