Factories Quotes - Page 5

• He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Party, Sleep

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.75, Emblem Editions

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• What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

  David Mitchell

  War, Law, Kitchen

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• Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

  John Green

  Boys, Eight, Years

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.51, Penguin

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• Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Teaching, Community

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• For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Passion, Holiday, Beer

  Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”

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• How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Flower, School, Boys

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• Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.

  Neal Shusterman

  Alliances, Body, Slave

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

  John Green

  Cancer, Wish, Dying

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Comforting, Condom, Danger

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory." Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?" No sir!" Then wonderful, welcome back!

  Johnny Depp

  Cat, Spy, Cad

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• For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.

  Richard Kadrey

  Doors, Fire, Puff

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• It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Hardest Job

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• Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there’s a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Dark

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• That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

  Cassandra Clare

  Truck, Booksellers

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.737, Simon and Schuster

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• This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Communication, Media

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass!

  Rachel Caine

  Love You, Over You, Looks

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.44, Allison & Busby

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• D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a ‘dirty little secret’, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production

  Gilles Deleuze

  Dirty, Secret, Desire

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• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Art, Fall, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

  John Grisham

  Hate, Want, Prison

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• Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, Cities, Population

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

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• We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, America, Rights

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• The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Agriculture, People, Ruling

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• Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.

  Paullina Simons

  White, Doors, Sky

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• The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

  Gayle Forman

  Dust, Ovation, Bows

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.132, Penguin

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