Barry S. Strauss Quotes

When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.

Barry S. Strauss

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• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Always
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• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Weird
  • Keep
  • Machine

• And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lust
  • Machine
  • Humanity's

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

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Money
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• Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• Children notice things first, people later.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Children
  • Notice

• Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Experience
  • Fun

• We were doing something called telemedicine, where we were using the ultrasound. One interesting application of this ultrasound is the possibility that you could possibly use it to measure critical bone areas during a long space mission and track if you're losing bone in these areas. On Earth, when they check you for bone loss, you get in this big machine. It's the size of a room and it's got a platform with an x-ray that scans your whole body and in critical areas and it takes a while and it just wouldn't be practical to have a machine like that in space.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Interesting

• I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Myself
  • Normal
  • Notice

• I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Power
  • Political
  • Machine

• Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Notice
  • Wearing
  • Ascot

• There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Military
  • Miracle

• What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Notice
  • Escapes
  • Incredulity

• No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

  

  Aristotle
  • Taken
  • Evil
  • Notice

• There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Answer
  • Machine
  • Indelibly

• If you notice, everyone on Deep Space Nine has this weird... I mean well... weird names. It's like they chose us for that. Except Terry Farrell but she makes it in the weirdness anyway. She fits right in with us.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Weird
  • Notice
  • Deep Space Nine

• If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heaven
  • Slave
  • Machine

• I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Environmental

• What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

  

  Todd Burpo
  • Humility
  • Agendas
  • Guile

• We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Use
  • British

• I hate filming in the studio.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Studio
  • I Hate
  • Filming

• When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Machine
  • Notice
  • Pay Attention