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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Orville Wright

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

Deus ex machina [A god from the machine].

Menander

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Leonard

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Henry David Thoreau

Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.

Flip Wilson

Unfortunately a snow machine leaves a two-foot compacted trench and it's impossible to ski through.

Tim Bennett

Jason was up in the machine gun pit and the truck rolled over on them and killed him right there.

Dan Hasenauer

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

Norbert Wiener

The purpose creates the machine.

Arthur Young

You can't run a steel company like a cash machine.

Wayne Fraser

But we're trying to preserve the antiquity of the machine and maintain its originality, so we're doing it the old-fashioned way.

Pete Burno

Hey, beam is beam. She hasn't fallen off the beam in a long time. You know she's not a machine. ... We'll move on.

Valeri Liukin

They broke this computer here. They broke our fax copier machine here. Our telephones they broke. Our copier right over here, brand new, was destroyed.

Tenille Schmidt

Kallis is a methodical run machine.

Jonathan Agnew

It's not the man but the machine that has to learn.

Gabriel Curio

Don't hang your head. Compared to the machine she's got, I think we did damn good.

William Perez

The cage is bulletproof, it's bulletproof all the way around, so they could've stood there and fired a machine gun at it and it wouldn't have affected it, none whatsoever.

Lisa Lindsey

If I thought the machine could do the job, I would fight for this. It takes someone to take the first step.

Gerry Champion

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Heinz R. Pagels

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Whoopi Goldberg

The idea that people can put a card into a slot machine and mindlessly feed money into it is a horrible thing.

Rob Bennett

It's a finely tuned machine around here, the way they run camp.

Sean Burke

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

Irving R. Kaufman

The fax machine had been unplugged at the other end.

David Blackwell

The means available to candidates are hugely disproportionate. One cannot compete with the government machine.

Hisham Kassem

You have to delete all files of the virus off your machine and then you have to re-install the programs that it affects.

Rick Levitt

Personally, I will be a lot more at ease knowing there is a machine at hand for that kind of emergency. Every second counts.

Lisa Jones

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

Cindy Crawford

I saw the guy in the back eating egg rolls off the hot dog machine.

Patricia Lopez

The house has been used as a command-and-control facility, and therefore it became a part of the military machine.

Doug Henderson

It's the archetypal killing machine for dinosaurs. It's been known for a century and all of us - whether you're 80, 40, 20 or 5 - you grew up with T. rex.

Spencer Lucas

It's a cash machine. The company is well positioned for growth in Latin America and Asia.

Jan Leroy

We do have an answering machine but we suffer from lack of a staff member.

Gail Davidson

The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one.

Adam Sohn

Machine capability is critical when you're machining parts to tolerances in the tenths.

Bill Murphy

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

John Jay Chapman

If I constantly finish in the top 10, even when my machine is in bad condition, I will get an offer for F1 tests for sure.

Keiko Ihara

(Higher education) is the solution machine. We must put forth right now, not tomorrow, a massive call to arms to ensure this engine of solutions.

Roy Spence

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

George Gurdjieff

Key to a deeper set of potential threats that can remotely run any program on your machine.

Roger Thompson

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

James Jeans

Guyton's a scoring machine. He's incredible. He's one of the best scorers I've seen this year.

Carl Bailey

Time could be wasted when (the individuals operating the AED) are getting machine hooked up, when the individual doesn't need an AED.

Jeff Pacheco

The machine moves slowly, but the IRS has more funds and is increasing its enforcement activity.

Paul Gada

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Marilyn Monroe

There is probably no subject that I've gotten more communication about since my election nine months ago than the voting machine issue.

Jerry Meek

Does it apply to your Xerox copy machine repairman or the UPS man who comes to your school every day?

Jeff Siegel

They are a machine. We're going to show up and try to give them a battle.

Craig Flaagan

We didn't need another machine, which was a big selling point for us.

Jerry Levine

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.

Pierre Gallois

This features gives IT pros a centralized way to control and block the use of these devices with the machine.

Shanen Boettcher

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Joichi Ito

There are ballots that the machine cannot read but from which voter intent can be discerned by manual review.

David Boies

He's a machine right now.

Dan Johnson

This is something that we pride ourselves in -- the human factor. I don't care if it works on my machine. Does it work on grandma's machine?

Tom Vanderpool

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Steve Ruggiero

This is an addition to what (decorators) do. This is a new business opportunity that is outside their box. The ROI on this machine is incredible.

Peter Holland

Our biggest vending machine sellers are The Wok Cookbook and a French-English dictionary.

Xavier Chambon

To pass this test, you have to have a good feel for what it going on. You can't just thrown something in a machine and hope it comes out right.

Jason Windham

Tom DeLay was brought down by the arrogance and political ambition of the political money machine he helped to build.

Roger Hickey

He is just a hitting machine.

Rick Sweet

I've had men and women who have been working out for years, and they're dying after this class. I don't think any machine will emulate what we do.

Warren Thompson

That's what they are. Machine guns. I don't know how many. I know some guns.

Nick Joseph

The research is aiming to make a molecular assembler, one machine that can build, on a molecular scale, anything.

Neil Gershenfeld

Language is a complex beast. At best, machine translation is a reasonable alternative to zero translation.

Don Depalma

This political machine in Mechanicville led by the Connors brothers is out of control and is infringing on people's rights.

Jeff Brown

Every dollar thrown into a slot machine is a dollar not available to pay for food, clothes, rent education or health care.

Laura Everett

This machine moves us up a level to get higher productivity without increasing errors.

Percy Malone

In our free weight area, you know someone is going to do four sets on one machine, and you wait for them to finish all four sets.

Paul Transier

We found NAC to be too intrusive. We can't touch every machine in a large university.

Mike Hawkins

We're going up against an offensive machine (tomorrow).

Chris Spillane

We have diversified with our milling machine.

Marc Machado

A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

We have steps in place before and after scanning to check this kind of thing. The machine will alert anytime that there's a mark that seems strange to the machine.

Patricia Olson

We're at a time when everybody is doing a lot of different music, but the opportunity arose and Rob was available to do it, so we can get the machine fired up again.

Kyle Cook

The public computer lab is not even close to having your own machine.

Diana Oblinger

These files are needed in order to load your machine. So after the virus runs on your machine, you can no longer boot it up.

Jimmy Kuo

On his person he had a list of video poker machine locations and betting sheets.

Brendan Conway

LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

John Stockwell

Today I would rather fall in love with a washing machine than a woman.

Richard Edwards

With the machine doing the driving, it's repeatable. With a human doing the driving, it's not.

Bob Recker

Private banking is a great machine. Every quarter UBS comes out with good results. They don't disappoint investors.

Andrea Solari

We worked like a machine tonight. Everyone did their jobs right.

Brian Wagner

Europe is very close to what you would find in the U.S. If you're going to a very small town in America, it might be harder to find an ATM machine -- so it is in Europe.

Carol Mickelsen

I've brought the machine.

Jamie Cullum

They hooked up a machine that measures airflow in and out of the human body to Dave Reeves, a tenor drummer.

Marc Whitlock

This a cash machine that is sharing the wealth. That's an important catalyst for long-term growth.

David Hartley

It seems to me the winners will be the ones who combine both technologies into one machine.

Scott Shannon

Music is not some stuffy college lecture, ... On a good day, Rage Against the Machine is not able to just rock you like a hurricane, but also to fuel the engine with indignation and the band's activist convictions.

Tom Morello

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

Michael Graves

A one-man shop probably won't pony up for an Intel machine.

Paul Kafasis

We are going to take the hit and basically you are going to get the Oracle database license for free with one year's support. The bigger the machine, the cooler this gets.

Scott Mcnealy

My Detachment ... Soul of a New Machine.

Random House

You know, hey, our shake machine's running a little slow. It's an old machine.

Amber Deahn

As recently as Desert Storm, they thought advanced communications was a fax machine.

John Pike

I proved that a black can run against another black. I exposed the fact that we have a political machine with a bloc of voters they can call on.

Shirley Johnson

He was a bit mad I think. He would go hunting with machine guns and things like that. He was an odd character, definitely.

Nick Mccarthy

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

The trick is the machine-learning algorithms developed at the Fraunhofer Institute.

Gabriel Curio

Turnout figures were tabulated incorrectly on one machine. The vote count was not affected.

Jennifer Kerns

We use hazard lights and headlights so people can see us. But I don't know how anybody could NOT see this big machine.

Terry Butler

(The Flying Jets) are a well-oiled machine. Their backs run hard and they're always moving forward with their legs. And their line just gets after it.

Andy Thomas

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Yasmin Sewell

She's pretty much a machine. She's always so far in front, but we're hoping Laura will pull off a really good race and end up in the top three.

Travis Moore

It is like drawing with your sewing machine.

Lucy Silliman

It's really cool watching this all come together and watching this machine. It's very awesome to see that passion.

Daniel Jones

Our gray water only consists of our water from our washing machine.

Gretchen Gigley

It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine. We've looked at the fossil earthquakes, we've made computer models, and we've made laboratory earthquakes. We've studied them from afar, but we've never been inside the machine where the action is.

Bill Ellsworth

It is against your horse having to ping his way through machine gun fire. It is one of the things that he has to overcome.

Mick Price

We've focused on being able to detect low wavelength light so this machine is able to see things other telescopes can't.

David Buckley

In October the kids started coming down here buying pop out of our pop machine. I got to thinking they need a place to hang out.

Pat Thompson

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Chuck Yeager

I'm not a machine. I never throw intentional.

Orlando Hernandez

We've been using a drum machine. It's a little bit unorthodox, but it works.

Michael Parykaza

You can't get too far off the beaten path, in terms of the physical dimensions of the machine.

Walt Vail

An examination of his computer did yield evidence to indicate that he had accessed explicit child pornography on that machine.

Mike Watson

It's as simple as telling the machine what to do, to create the parts we need.

Tony Glinke

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

Robert Blake

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

It's tough to get a really cheap Mac. It's easy to get a really cheap Windows machine.

Brian Cooley

We're going to melt down all of ours down and make a glass parrot for the Brass Parrot. We'll hang it beside the cigarette machine.

Bill Graves

It was an internal machine failure.

Polly Bell

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

Paul Nunes

All I would need is a time machine.

Jan Franco

We call the customer - some older lady or gentleman - and give them the number to call on the help desk of their health plan. The help desk is so overloaded the machine hangs up on them. They can't get any information and we can't get any information.

Warren Hernand

Any campaign with confidence ignores its opponents. The Hillary attack machine is fighting us tooth and nail every day because they are scared.

Brian Donahue

I love making the quilt tops and doing the machine piecing.

Diane Mccolley

Benefited from the Tom DeLay machine.

Bill Burton

The United States is a money-printing machine.

Peter Schmidt

Those are the most successful people if they go to a class. When they come and just want to do a machine, sometimes the longevity isn't as much.

Jennifer Anderson

I thought it was like a fight, a body attack, when slowly you kind of started to feel we were losing a little bit of the zip on our punches. That's what De La Salle will do; they're just a machine.

Chuck Rapp

If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.

Gayle Alvarez

It's more than just an answering machine.

Mike Dugan

You can't manufacture the Purple Heart with a machine.

Tom Tucker

The attackers used rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns in the gruesome event.

Yusuf Stanikzai

Because now you are using someone else's machine to execute actions on your behalf that are now very much untraceable.

Tim Vidas

Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.

Kevin Ayers

The 'pearl in the oyster' is being able to run an application in a machine, but not alter the machine in any way.

David Greschler

This society is machine-operated and corporate-driven.

Bella Lewitsky

The pro game doesn't care about a lot of things. It doesn't care about your family; it doesn't care about your kids. It is a machine, and it will tear you up and spit you out in a heartbeat.

Chad Lewis

I use digital for a proof machine instead of Polaroid, so it has a place in the industry.

Bill Groethe

There hasnt been a slot machine assigned yet. They have the cart before the horse on this.

John Cornish

Without a way for the voters to check, we don't have any way to recover votes if there's a machine failure.

Marybeth Kuznik

It looks like somebody took a machine gun, shot out all the windows and put holes in the cars. All of our 110 cars sustained some kind of damage.

Marcus Miller

I'm not tied to the fax machine. I can pull up faxes on any computer I can get access to. It's streamlining my life.

Bonnie Brady

It was kind of like a pinball machine. Each team looked like it got the momentum, and then - turnover.

Tim Sanders

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

Dido Armstrong

This is a form of tunnel boring. It turns the rock in front of a machine into dirt.

Bill Shorten

You know, we had a really awesome machine coming in here, a really strong machine. It just really feels great. Everything fell into place.

Harold Ryan

They're not as complicated to use as an automatic teller machine.

Taylor Eubank

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

Fred Allen

This is a convicted felon. This goes to a larger issue: Bob Menendez has based his entire political fund-raising machine on his ability to work with developers like Charlie Kushner. It's the company you keep.

Jill Hazelbaker

We played good tonight, much better than last Friday. Overall, it was a good effort. The big red machine moves on.

Barry Grayling

What you need is backup protection, a way to destroy the data if the machine is stolen, and encryption. With our data destruction, it's like the laptop will swallow cyanide.

Jeff Rubin

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.

Gilbert Ryle

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Boris Vallejo

He was able to convert a great idea into a commercially viable machine.

Tod Ruhstaller

Every machine should look just about identical in the Census Bureau. We wanted to make things easy so people can support the servers and not have to know a lot about them.

Craig Newell

That's not a cool thing to do. You'll have guys and girls, too, who have finished one set of reps and they don't want to get up because they know someone else is going to get the machine.

Paul Transier

It's rough and nasty out there. The ocean is like a washing machine on the agitation cycle.

Scott Petersohn

Teams are encouraged to build a catapult machine and launch pumpkins.

Myra Westphal

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

David Sarnoff

If everybody had a time machine and they can hop in that machine and go back a couple of hours, a couple of seconds, they would do it. But we're living right now.

Sean Taylor

We don't charge up hills with machine gun nests anymore.

Nicholas Kehoe

I could have bought a Mercedes. But a Mercedes can't make gelato, and this machine can.

Robert Davidson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.

Alfred Anderson

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Karel Capek

We usually only use 20. But that's enough to keep the students interested, and the Wind Machine is always the first thing that they want to know more about.

Angela Cring

Fund people's needs, not the war machine. That's one of our main slogans.

Marcial Guerra

It's pretty nasty what it does in there. Your machine will just lock up and will not be usable.

Vincent Gullotto

How productive do you think that machine is?

George Taylor

We're taking everything in the homes, all the furniture that looks like it's been agitated in a washing machine in a muddy washing machine and dropped back down in their house.

Ave Bauder

The city has the machine that when we get a proposal, we can take it from beginning to end.

Tim Moerman

It's better to purchase a front-loading washing machine if you're in the market for a new machine.

Gretchen Gigley

Getting a machine to do what you want it to is only part function. It also becomes an art form. ... These guys are masters at what they do.

Chuck Tolton

She was so tired of all of it, being hooked to a machine for hours ... and never feeling any better.

Paula Meece

He was just like a machine, mowing 'em down. He's a very aggressive pitcher.

Don Werner

If you're a little one riding a big, powerful machine, that's not a good fit.

Colleen Mcelhenny

If you have a value-added tax you will have bigger government. When the dust settled 10 years in the future, we would have the same income tax as we do now and a giant money machine called (a value-added tax).

Daniel Mitchell

What I want to know is why we don't have any paratroopers with machine guns on every street.

Keith Williams

He will not run on soft ground again. It will be the 2,000 Guineas next season and, on good or faster ground, it will take some machine to beat him.

Richard Ryan

There is a very strict authentication process to use the machine.

Linda Pinney

The machine analyzes the release from the skin pores and is able to detect alcohol molecules.

John Desmond

Machine owners know they're illegal. They've been warned, and they just won't take them out.

Marvin Brown

It is that machine that they put together in Toronto that is really at the heart of Arthur's operation. They are the best in the world at what they do.

Paul Mcguinness

We really enjoy being theatrical. It lets the audience know we aren't trying to half do anything. We used to carry a bubble machine, and we used to carry a fog machine.

Josh Foreman

Be watching your fax machine. The fax will say it all.

Steve Pigeon

The lake can really get to you. The water can be like a washing machine.

Ron Stevens

We're only selling a couple hundred bags a day (at each machine). The beauty of it is, at least we've got some (for customers) every day.

Jim Parker

She was a machine. She was the main reason they won.

Danielle Robinson

As you generate more sales tax, you can take some of that back into the machine and grow what you have.

Ron Campbell

She doesn't have any kidneys. Every three days a machine pumps all the blood out of her body.

Linette Johnson

We try to do what we can in our own way. We want to eventually have machine manufacturing in America. Our goal is to open some of those factories in our community that have closed.

Natalie Chanin

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

Mickey Hart

Machines are not judgmental. Some people feel like they are being judged when they phone call centers. That doesn't happen with a machine.

David Nahamoo