#mechanic

I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#fix #heart #love #mechanic #swearing

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. ↗

— James Van Allen

#fan #had #i #magazines #mechanics

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#computer #divine #finger #god #land

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #being #day #human #human being

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. ↗

— Herbert Read

#corporate #dull #his #individual #life

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#mechanics #vehicle

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#category #mechanic #professor #same #talks

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#amplifier #coming #create #doing #feed

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#genius #mechanical #organic #reason #spirit