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Quotes About Mechanical

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
~ Bill Nye
Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
~ Ikue Mori
I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.
~ Evan Glodell
I love mechanical things, older cars especially.
~ Brian Krzanich
Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.
~ Erika Christensen
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
~ Damien Hirst
Why are there mechanical squid in the water cistern?" The Castle sighed. "Why is everyone so surprised about that? Where else would we keep them?
~ Phil Foglio
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
I'm not brassed off, it's just it's the association of the Dalek question, this mechanical mobile object, I'm beginning to find it distracting. And they were difficult to play to, because you're not looking into human eyes. You're looking at a metal object, moving about, with a voiceover.
~ William Hartnell
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
~ Helena Blavatsky
The mechanically induced mystical experience is what you have there.
~ Joseph Campbell
Every State-formation, every assertion of the power of the magistrate, every mechanical means of compelling order and of guaranteeing a safe course of life is therefore always something unnatural;
~ Abraham Kuyper
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
~ Ada Lovelace
Truly, we are rich - far richer than we think; rich in what we already possess, richer still in the possibilities of production of our actual mechanical outfit; richest of all in what we might win from our soil, from our manufactures, from our science, from our technical knowledge, were they but applied to bringing about the wellbeing of all.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
It was quiet in the room. Only the clock ticked on in the remorseless, mechanical minutes that men have made for themselves to measure away the joy and sadness of their earthly lives.
~ R.A. Dick
The entire cerebral mechanism can be reproduced mechanically. So much the better, as this will show the most obtuse of us where the error lies. But when we want to go beyond academic know-how—that sclerosis of the spirit—to fertile thought, the cerebral mechanism is no longer adequate.
~ R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
the forces of the human heart become entangled among the forces of the human automaton
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I love bikes.
~ Koena Mitra
Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.
~ Frances Arnold
I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.
~ Kerry Bishe
I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.
~ Tracey Gold
Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!
~ Ralph Ellison
Behold! a walking zombie! Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!
~ Ralph Ellison
Understand? It's worse than that. He registers with his senses but short-circuits his brain. Nothing has meaning. He takes it in but he doesn't digest it. Already he is . . . a walking zombie! Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!
~ Ralph Ellison