Machinery Quotes

I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.

Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.

If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.