Quotes About Mechanical

A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love.

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

The studies concluded that the graviton must be massless and chargeless, and must have the quantum mechanical property known as spin-2. (Very roughly, the graviton should spin like a top, twice as fast as the spin of a photon.)

war had become a mechanical reflex that served as its own excuse for the acts men performed.

Really cool people?" said Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping.

Look, I don't mind summoning some demon and asking it," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "That's normal. But building some mechanical contrivance to do your thinking for you, that's … against Nature.

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

The thing you have to remember with old cars is that they don't just start up cold as soon as you turn the key. You have to pump the gas twice and then hold down the pedal.

had mechanical problems and he got stuck in Miami. The time before

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

The size of the pieces of the cleaning pie - time, chemistry, mechanical, and temperature - are constantly changing in size to conform to the type of soil to be cleaned.

For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid.

smoochers....Blob after blob after blob...squirming in the dark is a clever night's work....When they're all being shoved by body chemicals through a mindless mechanical process, like so many pairs of stuck-together frogs.

screws on the cowlings. Only a divine miracle

Betting against the point spread is a relatively mechanical trip, but betting against another individual can be very complex, if you're serious about it—because you want to know, for starters, whether you're betting against a fool or a wizard, or maybe against somebody who's just playing the fool.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.

Me and my step-dad shared a $500 Chevy Celebrity, a 1983 Dodge Ram truck, and an old Ford Ranger truck - it was a piece of junk. I hated that thing. It fell apart. It didn't always go in reverse. So I drove in a circle or I would just get somebody to sit in the thing and I would push it backward.

Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.

Except for a human-powered hoist described

This book intends to make the case for explanation by reduction to physics and mechanical engineering, to this alternative realm of explanation: not to alternative explanations but to explanations of phenomena with which the biologist's classical chemical reductionism just doesn't help. As we'll see, this realm not only explains different phenomena but provides information that makes wonderfully satisfying intuitive sense.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I'm looking for the oldest pocket watch you have.