Unmechanized Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.' — Asif Kapadia

It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows. — Andrew Rosenthal

I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The more I see of unmechanized places and people the more conviced I become that machines have done incalculable damage by unbalancing the relationship between Man and Nature. — Dervla Murphy

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation. — Richard Jewell

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken — Bob Dylan

When you are sitting on a three-legged stool and you've kicked out all three legs, but you're still sitting upright, must you assume that you're so good, you levitate? Or must you assume that you were sitting on the ground all along? — Lydia Netzer

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it. — Nikki Rowe

I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog. — Calista Flockhart

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either. — Jennifer Aniston