Malfunction Quotes

• But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.

  J.R. Ward

  Night, Doors, Tudors

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.226, Penguin

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• It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

  Sarah Dessen

  Noble, Way, Steps

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.214, Penguin

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• Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Views, Years, Disease

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 534, 1978.

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• If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

  Arthur Bloch

  Long, Progress, Enough

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• What is your major malfunction?

  R. Lee Ermey

  Majors

  R. Lee Ermey (2013). “Gunny's Rules: How to Get Squared Away Like a Marine”, p.88, Regnery Publishing

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• Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.

  Amanda Beard

  Practice, Competition, Important

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

  Laurel Clark

  Data, Looks, Might

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• The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Censorship, Internet

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• There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.

  LeVar Burton

  Stars, Would Be, Wardrobe Malfunctions

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

  Billy Connolly

  Crosses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

  Sarah Dessen

  Way, Chance, Problem

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.214, Penguin

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• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Honesty, Military, Battle

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• The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

  Louis Pasteur

  Believe, Spirit

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• Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Beautiful, Buddhism

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• Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Depression, Years, Black

  Sebastian Faulks (2000). “Charlotte Gray: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

  Charles Stross

  Idiot, Machinery, Administrators

  Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.38, Penguin

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• Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you dont choose the right thing to wear underneath!

  Adriana Lima

  Important, Pieces, Lingerie

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• Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.

  Myles Munroe

  Law, Principles, Produce

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• But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Laughter, Philosophy, Men

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• Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered? And second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is automatically conclusions in various ways — which, by and large, are useful — but which often malfunction? One approach is rationality… And the other is to evaluate the psychological factors that cause subconscious conclusions — many of which are wrong.

  Charlie Munger

  Two, Track, Brain

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• The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen stormed into our hotel in Cairo. I heard shots coming from the lobby and ran downstairs to check on my dad. By the time I got there, he was just calmly zipping up his workbag while three unconscious gunmen hung by their feet from the chandelier, their robes falling over their heads so you could see their boxer shorts. Dad claimed not to have witnessed anything, and in the end the police blamed a freak chandelier malfunction.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Fall, Mean

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• Just keep it simple. When you over-think what you're wearing, that's when wardrobe malfunctions tend to happen.

  Guy Berryman

  Simple, Thinking, Wardrobe

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• And what am I? (Adron) You’re kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia) I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Blood, Broken

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• It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

  Gaelen Foley

  Males, Compass, Made

  Gaelen Foley (2010). “My Wicked Marquess: Number 1 in series”, p.116, Hachette UK

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