Mechanism Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (M) Quotes

"It was the frustration, not being able to get in my car and drive home to center myself. I was in this surreal world full of nobody I trusted and getting hit on the head constantly. You`re thinking `this is the best I can do and it`s not working, what more can I do?` It was a cheap escape - well it wasn`t cheap - but it was just a pathetic escape mechanism. I couldn`t leave so I left by being somewhere else in my head. It wasn`t the greatest career move, it distracted me from music. But when your entire life is centred on this one goal, are you really going let the drugs take it away from you?"

- Keith Urban

I`m very troubled by the proliferation of arms, at the fact so many people in the United States carry guns. It obviously contributes greatly to the crime problems we have. I`m sure gun laws should be strengthened in the United States. I just don`t know the correct mechanism.

- Harrison Ford

My parents` lot had literally crawled away from the second world war, taking with them two vital commodities by way of a survival mechanism: respectability and security. It was odd, coming from a Christian household, but the big thing was about not being what they called "common". I got all that, "Don`t play with him, he`s common". I had a friend called Grenville Barker who`d come round sometimes and play football on the lawn, but not very often. And I wasn`t allowed to go to his home very often because they were working class. He was what my mother called a bad influence. Everything had to do with influence. My mother was desperate I should be properly influenced, have a proper, received accent, be sent away to school at eight. So all you can do is go into yourself, immerse yourself in your own life.

- John Hurt

Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you`re part of the mechanism. If you break down, you`ll be replaced.

- Mel Gibson

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

- Peter Jennings

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

- Frank Herbert

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it. That`s how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

- Judd Apatow

It seems that everyone finds a mechanism that suits their community.

- Patricia Anderson

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

- Ted Allen

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

- Warren Christopher

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

- Tim Conway

Triple reuptake inhibitors will be the next blockbusters in major depression. With their new mechanism of action, they`re going to offer a clinical difference in efficacy or in tolerability.

- Natalie Taylor

The problem is, we fear negative consequences a lot more than we value positive ones. What happens to an athlete is that if he wore a particular sock, or pair of shirts, or did some ritual, and had success, he`ll continue to do that. That act reduces the anxiety associated with not doing it. It`s the exact same mechanism, clinically, we find in obsessive-compulsive people.

- Ron Smith

It seems that everyone finds a mechanism that suits their community.

- Mike Jackson

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

- John Cameron

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.

- David Duke

We knew there were certain kidney cancer patients who responded to this drug, but we didn`t know the mechanism behind the response. We had to determine the mechanism of response so we could identify the responders.

- George Thomas

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

- Jacques Lacan

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

- Aicha El Wafi

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

- Akarika Dawn

And then when we assembled it, the mechanism, which was built in Russia, just worked exactly like everybody said, so it was letter perfect.

- Alan Hoffenblum

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

- Alasdair Haynes

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

- Ali Dayih

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

- Allen Rossum

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ``Why are we doing this? Why don`t the Hawaiians have control?`` ``Well, we have no mechanism to do it,`` I was told.

- Ami Brophy

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

- Andre Leon Talley

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

- Andrea Ruedi

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

- Andrew Fagan

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

- Andrew Forman

The exact mechanism by which peanut allergy may recur is not known, but we know that the children in our study who ate concentrated forms of peanut frequently had a considerably lower chance of having a recurrence of their allergy.

- Ann Fisher

The adoption program is critical to us for the management of the wild horses. It`s our mechanism to place our excess horses that are removed from the range.

- Anna de Noailles

The general purpose is to comprehensively discuss the State of the Union address as a sort of immediate feedback mechanism in a local setting.

- Antonio Carluccio

That`s a marvelous accomplishment, ... The Thrift Shop is an amazing support mechanism for teachers and students.

- Arrigo Sacchi

The problem with the OPES group was that it appeared to be developing a mechanism to make it easy for unauthorized third parties to modify content in transit -- say by ISPs to insert advertisements.

- Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

It is ironic that the Internet, an industry I participated in and contributed to the development of, is now potentially being blackballed as a mechanism of the delivery of the very product I`m now producing.

- Astrid Ludin

Look what a beautiful mechanism that is. It`s obviously designed to do what it does. It must have been made that way.

- Baba Dioum

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

- Barbara Semedo

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

- Honore de Balzac