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Quotes tagged “`machine”

“Machines don't know everything.”
— David Abbott, Just Like Heaven
Tagged: Machine, Knowledge
“One faulty cog and nothing works as it should.”
— The Handler, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: Cog , Machine, Metaphor
“I hate this, Johnny. I really do. I hate violence. That is why I had Rosie do this, I could never do that man, I could never hold a knife to Tyler’s throat, she was my woman. We shared time together. But, Rosie, he’s like a machine. He’s got this gift of blankness. Once you set him in motion, he will not stop. So when three o’clock comes, he will gut her like a pig and try not to get any on his shoes, and there is nothing I can do.”
— Bodhi, Point Break
Tagged: Violence, blankness, Stabbing, Machine
“Oh, my goodness! Shut me down! Machines making machines. How perverse!”
— C-3PO / Dannl Faytonni, Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones
Tagged: Shut Down, Machine, perverse
“Lisa: You don't travel much, do you?

Dracula: This entire castle is a traveling machine. I can go anywhere in it.

Lisa: Yes, but... you don't.”
— Lisa Tepes, Castlevania, Season 1: Witchbottle
Tagged: travel, entire castle, Machine, Stuck
“Never send a human to do a machine's job.”
— Agent Smith, The Matrix
Tagged: human, Machine, Automation
“You see these hands? They're digging machines. You want to go to China? I'll get you to China. I'll dig like a psychotic rodent if I have to!”
— Fernando Sucre, Prison Break, Season 1: Cute Poison
Tagged: hands, digging, Machine, efficient, China, Simile Examples
“I am not your lab partner. I am not your friend. I’m your slave. You want to know what happens on the other side? Put yourself in that machine and die for it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Forking Paths
Tagged: Refusal, Lab Partner, Friend, Slave, Machine, Die
“You’re all prisoners. What you call sanity, it’s just a prison in your minds that stops you from seeing that you’re just tiny little cogs in a giant absurd machine. Wake up! Why be a cog? Be free like us. Just remember, smile.”
— Jerome Valeska, Gotham, Season 2: Rise of the Villains
Tagged: Prisoners, minds, Machine, Wake Up
“There is never going to be a new Pelé because my father and my mother closed the machine.”
— Pele, Pelé | The Talks
Tagged: Broke the Mold, mother, father, Machine
“Well, the brain is a machine, designed to respond to stimuli. You keep the brain awake but the body immobile, it breaks down, loses its hair. After two months it eventually strokes out.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: The Uncanny Valley
Tagged: Ghost in the Machine, Brain, Machine, Stroke
“You're not a man, you're a machine.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Plays by George Bernard Shaw
Tagged: Man, Machine, Identity
“A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.”
— George Gershwin, The Composer in the Machine Age
Tagged: Skyscraper, Machine, Experience, Emotion
“Are you a washing machine?
Because I wanna fill you with my dirty load.”
— Perpetual_Anxiety, Are you a washing machine?
Tagged: `machine, dirt

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