Factories Quotes - Page 23

• My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

  Jack Kirby

  Parent, Source, Cheap Labor

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

  Valentino Rossi

  Heart, Careers, Long

  Source: www.sportrider.com

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• I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

  Woody Allen

  Poor, Factory Workers, Shows

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• I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

  Geoff Thompson

  Book, Toilets, Firsts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

  Moby

  Children, Slavery, Vote

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.

  Theo Rossi

  Trying, Want, Labs

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• Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Heart, Being Human

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• People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

  Eric Drooker

  Class, People, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Passion, Order

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night? The out-of-tuneness of the triad is part of its beauty.

  Nicholson Baker

  Running, Grief, Grieving

  Nicholson Baker (2007). “Vintage Baker”, p.181, Vintage

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• I'm loyal to my friends, but I have so few now.I force myself to see people when they're here. Or when I'm here. I don't live in England that much now in the sense that I spend time in factories. I'm such a factory man now. This is really what I enjoy doing.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Men, People, England

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Moving, Wine, School

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• When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

  Henry Ford

  Flower, Thinking, Green Fields

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

  Molly Ivins

  Powerful, People, Scary

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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• Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.

  Charles Sheeler

  Religious, Expression, Numbers

  Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

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• The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Trying, Demand

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• I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

  Marge Piercy

  Giving, Choices, Mind

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• Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Mean, Pennies

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• Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

  Liya Kebede

  Fashion, People, Asking

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• Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, Animal, World

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• The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

  Willa Cather

  Running, Silence, Emptiness

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

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• Hollywood is a mirage factory.

  Anais Nin

  Hollywood, Mirages

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• In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Wealth, Economy

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• What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Army, Men, Sky

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Orsinian Tales”, p.112, Library of America

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• My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.

  George Pataki

  Summer, Father, Thinking

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