Richard McKenna Quotes
The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.
Richard McKenna
Quotes to Explore
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
James Brown
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Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch
Jan Berry
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For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.
Umberto Eco
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We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.
Jimmy Buffett
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Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay
W. Edwards Deming
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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.
J. G. Ballard
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I'm ready, ... It was a little bit of a scare and a rocky summer, but the time to take stuff for granted is over. There's some relief but the journey's not over. I've got to live up to the trade and the expectations.
Eddy Curry
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When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.
Katherine Jackson
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In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.
Jonathan Krisel
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I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.
Huston Smith
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The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.
Richard McKenna