#mechanical

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys. ↗

— Krista Allen

#i #i love #inner #just #know

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#also #any #artisan #been #capital

I just write mechanical things. ↗

— Barry Zito

#just #mechanical #things #write

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

— John Leeson

#because #dog #i #like #made

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#easily #easy #flesh #insects #like

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #chemical #consists #convinced #deeper

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#best #best way #delight #drop #exciting

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#again #because #being #go #like

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

#beyond #changed #else #i #lens