Wrenches Quotes

• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

  Rip Torn

  Underdog, Balls, Dodgeball

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  Hanna Rosin

  Quilts, Men, Kitchen

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• My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Monkeys, Way, Machinery

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.95, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Forever, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 19, 2011

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• When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

  Alvah Bessie

  Monkeys

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

  Harold Brodkey

  Pain, Agony, Shock

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• I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Sweet, Believe

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Library, Opening

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• Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Monkeys, Machinery

  Everybody's Magazine, p. 36, May 1920.

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• In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

  John James Audubon

  Noble, Forests, Trouble

  John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Insomnia, Matter, Consciousness

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.488, Vintage

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• You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Men, Inheritance

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• Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Doe

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.105

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• Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back

  Adam Young

  Stars, Ties, Track

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• The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Brother, Grief, Loss

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8801, Delphi Classics

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• I—I adore you, too. Well, I don't know if I adore you. That's not really the word I'd use. But I—I—" I managed to wrench it out. God, this was hard! "I love you." "Of course you do," he said, totally unsurprised. "WHAT? I finally tell you my deepest, most personal feelings and you're all, 'Yeah, I already got that memo'? This, this is why you drive me nuts! This is why it's so hard to tell you things! I take it back.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Love You, Nuts, Feelings

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• Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Lines, Haul

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• My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

  Wilbur Smith

  Real, World, Firsts

  "Wilbur Smith, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.

  Michael Cunningham

  Heart, Sorrow, Needs

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• Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?" God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!" Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo.

  James Patterson

  Morning, Stars, Coffee

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• I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sweaters, People, Feelings

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• Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the idea of each according to his or her abilities, each according to his or her needs - in solving a problem - is actually the only thing that works. And in situations of disaster, there are often communistic notions of improvisation, where you basically exchange hierarchies and all of a sudden all those things that are luxuries that you can't afford, you have them in an emergency.

  David Graeber

  Ideas, Luxury, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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