Gears Quotes - Page 5

• I didn't realize what I was even doing when I started to record music. I was just doing it for fun. I picked up whatever recording gear I could get my hands on and I'd sit there day-in and day-out... experimenting with different sounds and trying to write songs.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Fun, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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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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• I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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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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• Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Soccer, Art, Real

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• I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car.

  Sandra Bullock

  Stars, Car, Top Gear

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• The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Years, Stories

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.

  PZ Myers

  Philosophy, Confused, Men

  "Alvin Plantinga Gives Philosophy a Bad Name". Personal blog, freethoughtblogs.com. May 29, 2009.

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• You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.

  Chili Davis

  Angel, Yankees, Goodwill

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• OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird?

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Block, Crazy, Hockey

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• Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming!
  Party On!
  A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead!
  Party On!
  My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river!
  Party On!

  Cody Lundin

  Party, Rivers, Survival

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.

  Joe Nichols

  Iraq, Soldier, Degrees

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• I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

  Liam Gallagher

  Heaven, Devil, Hell

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• I am not a fan of having too much gear.

  Roger Deakins

  Fans, Too Much

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• I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

  Wilfred Owen

  Jesus, Gun, Tears

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.

  Cliff Bleszinski

  War, Games, Giving

  "Gears Of War: Exile Canned" By Colin Campbell, www.ign.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

  Indro Montanelli

  Sports, Giving, Political

  "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, June

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got to play better and contribute more”. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games.

  Sean Burke

  Games, Play, Bigs

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• If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Car, Able, Wheels

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• Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

  Emily Procter

  Mom, Relevant, Knows

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• Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

  Philip Wylie

  Men, Long, Shapes

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.

  Hideo Kojima

  Guy, Sound, May

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• It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.

  Robert McCracken

  Life, Cities, Suffering

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• Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Welcome, Slave

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