The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.
There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.
Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.
After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.
I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.
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.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.