There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

I love that men like to look at women that they love sports that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows it flowers wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

It couldn't sound like a dog because K9 isn't a dog but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

But I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

It frequently happens that two persons reasoning right on a mechanical subject think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.