#mechanical

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#am #holds #human #i #i am

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#again #because #being #go #like

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#beyond #changed #else #i #lens

I just write mechanical things. ↗

— Barry Zito

#just #mechanical #things #write

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible. ↗

— John Leeson

#because #dog #i #like #made

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#difficult #effort #find #instincts #many

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#communication #determined #form #hampered #inevitable

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. ↗

— Andre Norton

#big #big mistake #creative #feel #hands

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer. ↗

— Bill Nye

#engineer #i #i am #know #may