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Conveyor Quotes

On conveyors of information, industry, and creative work.

This page collects quotes using the conveyor as both metaphor and machine, from prices conveying information to songs made without a belt-like process.

A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around Mrs. Thatcher's memory that was rooted in theories about economics. They did this because economics is the only...

Quotes by Adam Curtis

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Quotes by Thomas Sowell

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

Quotes by Richard Price

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

Quotes by Maxwell

Belt Quotes

I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.

Quotes by Kyp Malone

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's...

Quotes by J. R. Moehringer

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.

Quotes by Geezer Butler

I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

Quotes by Erland Josephson

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

Bourgeoisie Quotes

We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

Quotes by D. B. Weiss

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Frequently Asked Questions

How is 'conveyor' used across these quotes?
It's used both as an economic metaphor, describing prices as a conveyor of information, and literally, referring to conveyor belts in industry and music production.
Do any quotes connect conveyor belts to workplace safety?
Yes, one quote discusses conveyor belt fires in industrial settings, noting they aren't unique to any single industry like coal.
Is there a quote about music and conveyor belts?
Yes, one quote insists that songs aren't produced on a conveyor belt, pushing back against the idea of mass, impersonal music-making.
Does an economic quote use conveyor as a metaphor?
Yes, one quote describes prices as a fast, effective conveyor of information across a society with fragmented knowledge.
What other quotes pair well with this industrial theme?
The belt quotes collection offers more on this closely related, literal side of the topic.

A more sobering quote notes industrial conveyor belt fires, a reminder that the same word can describe both an economic idea and a real workplace hazard.