Gears Quotes - Page 4

• Head gear, plus acne equals...table for one in the cafeteria.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Acne

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• Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

  George H. W. Bush

  Magic, Machines, Mesh

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• I'm very into the military and police stuff. Gear and technical gear is something that's changing every day and every day you're trying to be on the cutting edge and improve your stuff more and more because your life depends on it. And so, the guns and the gears are changing constantly.

  Steven Seagal

  Military, Cutting, Gun

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.

  Trey Anastasio

  Running, Soul, Phish

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• The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

  Andrew Bird

  Country, Real, Trying

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

  Missy Peregrym

  Sports, Jobs, Vancouver

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• We disparage reason.
  But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.
  There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.
  Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

  Robert Frost

  Reason, Steering, Brake

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus." “His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Hair, Voice

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.203, Penguin

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• I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

  Jim Butcher

  Trying, Lines, Pockets

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin

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• Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Practice, Laughing

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a non-depletable treasure. I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.

  John Pfahl

  Views, Years, Ideas

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• When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.

  Tiger Woods

  Player, Games, Differences

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

  Guy Claxton

  Moving, Creativity, Two

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• In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

  Steve Jobs

  Two Sides, Weakness, Coins

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• All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

  Abby Sunderland

  Rip, Sea, Sometimes

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

  Richie Havens

  Organized Mind, Heaven, Music Is

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• Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.

  Jack Welch

  Taken, World, Sand

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• I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!

  Hideo Kojima

  Pain, Games, Missing

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• I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Fearless, Mind

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• Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.

  Phillip Daniels

  Football, School, Player

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• I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Teaching, Exhausted, Middle

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• Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Life, Change, Thinking

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (1924). “There is Confusion”, p.267, UPNE

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• A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.

  Brian Hodge

  Real, Book, Home

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• Takes more than combat gear to make a man
  Takes more than a license for a gun
  Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
  A gentleman will walk but never run

  Sting

  Running, Gun, Men

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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