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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
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
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
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
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
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
We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
— Peter Jackson
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
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
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
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
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
— Bruno Dumont
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
— Bill Vaughan
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
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