Eileen Gray Quotes

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

Eileen Gray

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• We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Release
  • Touring
  • Began

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

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Always
  • Understood
  • Machine

• 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

• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Me

• To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Medicine

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Money
  • Magic
  • Release

• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Want
  • Way
  • Communication

• 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
  • Actress
  • Machine

• 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

• 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 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

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Military
  • Miracle

• Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

  

  Socrates
  • Fear
  • Reverence
  • Extension

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heaven
  • Slave
  • Machine

• Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Machine
  • Gain
  • Advancement

• Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

  

  Art Blakey
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Account

• I am absolutely delighted that the international community has chosen Schwarz-Schilling to be my successor. He knows this country, he loves this country... and I cannot think of nobody better to take on this job.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Country
  • Job
  • Community

• A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

  

  Eileen Gray
  • Machine
  • Release
  • Extension