Quotes of Equipment - somelinesforyou

“ Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things blocking and tackling. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers anybody else to rail at me. ”

- William Congreve

“ Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ”

- Billy Connolly

“ You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. ”

- Antony Jay

“ The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. ”

- Robert Pirsig

“ The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ”

- Mark Russell

“ Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ”

- Hugh Casson

“ When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. ”

- Warren Buffett

“ Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery — always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ As a former soldier, I can't believe that a secretary of defense would be so dismissive of requests for protective gear by our people in uniform. ”

- Frank Lautenberg

“ Easy on the throttle, steady on the gears, roll her over gently and she'll last for many years. ”

- Unknown

“ With bag and baggage. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility. ”

- Leo Burnett

“ I think this is a good example of the township taking a proactive stance rather than reaction,... I think this is an excellent example of what we should be doing to take the township into the future. ”

- Perry Miller

“ The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. ”

- Karl Marx

“ You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment. ”

- Ken Rockwell

“ People are under the illusion that it's easy… technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell me students to simplify their equipment. ”

- Brett Weston

“ I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it. ”

- Pete Domenici

“ Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans — the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes… ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha — which is to demean oneself. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken
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