Apparatus Quotes

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

I did Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert down in Buenos Aires, and I stunk. I was infatuated with Orson Welles` filmography at the time, so I wanted to see if I could make my voice as low as his, and I succeeded. Nothing in the text supported that choice, though, so in the film, I look like a jackass. I don`t look like a tough guy, I look like an idiot actor trying to toy around with his vocal apparatus.

In other words, say, that price would only be good till the end of the year, ... So when we go to the special town meeting to ask for the money to buy the apparatus, we know exactly the amount.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn`t enough critical reporting about it and that`s why it`s gotten out of hand.

The diversification of the people`s demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they`re entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

(Copes` note says) it`s been a long time ... Republican Party apparatus . . . that becomes more organized, more belligerent, and more nakedly partisan by the day.

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.