Top 80 Mechanical Quotes

In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are ‘regulated’ so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don’t believe in second take at all.

Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

But, I don’t think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can’t create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that’s written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

You don’t have to find out what someone’s mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I’ve seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren’t happy.

There’s a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I’m terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems.

He believes in romance. He isn’t merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

When I was living an almost mechanical lifestyle as an idol, I was constantly wrapped up in thoughts about who I was. That’s when I entered a phase in which I was trying to discover myself. Because I was able to get past that difficult phase, I now realize how important it is to protect myself and my identity.

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.

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

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.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer or mechanical engineer. But more of my friends happened to be majoring in physics than engineering, so I switched over. No more compelling reason than that.

I have a grandson who’s both really interested in art and all things mechanical, so I think he’ll get a huge kick out of ‘Apollo 13’ someday. And I think my granddaughters will enjoy ‘Splash.’

Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the heart are rare to come by.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I get up when I feel like getting up. That’s the deal I’ve made with myself: I can stay in bed as long as my dog’s bladder holds. The other half of that deal is that once the dog is walked, the very next thing I do is write. It’s mechanical. It’s programming, very nearly brainwashing.

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

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

For me, it’s a feel thing; it’s a mechanical thing.

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they’re mechanical machinery.

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.

Though films need retakes, I have always hated them because they tend to become mechanical.

I’m not brassed off, it’s just it’s the association of the Dalek question, this mechanical mobile object, I’m beginning to find it distracting. And they were difficult to play to, because you’re not looking into human eyes. You’re looking at a metal object, moving about, with a voiceover.

The minute there’s a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

You can create some soul out of something that’s electronic or mechanical.

Videogames are indeed design: They’re sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

CrossFit really teaches the basics and fundamentals of proper mechanical movement.

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can’t tell you.

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

I received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, then graduated with a masters in nuclear engineering.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It’s a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

I feel like I was kind of raised to be mechanical, like, ‘Hi, I’m Brooke Hogan. I’m Hulk Hogan’s daughter. I like cookies and sunshine.’

My father worked as a mechanical draftsman at Mazagaon Docks and is a Catholic. My mum was a Muslim, so my parents broke quite a few rules to get married.

After I did my graduation in mechanical engineering, I got a scholarship to go to the U.S. to do my master’s. So I did that. I also worked there for a while. After my master’s, I did a course in Film Appreciation.

I realized mechanical engineering doesn’t much lend itself to missionary work.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

But I’m a fairly mechanical worker – I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it’s moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men – that they never mature and are always just boys.