#assembly

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things. ↗

— James Darren

#assembly line #cut #doing #dry #exceptions

No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I can remember when Christmas morning would start at about half past ten with a glass of Buck's Fizz in bed. Now it begins at half past five, with a test of my fine motor skills and ability to read Korean. ↗

— John Lanchester

#children #christmas #relaxation #toys #funny

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#assembly #beginning #bell #everyone #five

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#cannot #factory #feel #hell #through

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship. ↗

— George Pataki

#country #freedom #freedom of speech #israel #respects

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#budget #general #general assembly #i #increase

After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it. ↗

— Fanny Kaplan

#am #assembly #constituent #freed #i

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#assembly-line #dejan-stojanovic #final #literature #literature-quotes

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy. ↗

— Ron Davies

#assembly #democracy #done #improving #much