Best Gears Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“My visage high above your city, Shines like gold, but half as pretty. Arms I've none, but hands I've two: Mondo, mini, black not blue. Climb my stairs and have no fears, All that threatens are my gears. Tucked beneath the mightly wheel, An envelpe shall truth reveal.”

Truth Clock Clue City Gears Riddle Envelope

Book:The Friendship Riddle

Source: The Friendship Riddle

“My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.”

Knows Kind Moments Steps Kicks Persona Gears

Author:Karen O

“I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.”

Want Hollywood Gears Cogs

Author:Scott Porter

“I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.”

Said School Students College High School Journalism Gears

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.”

Needs Looks Play Kids School Parent Week Baby Commitment My Family Weekend Consumed Gears Nonprofits Play Dates

Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?”

Knows Want House Difficult Studios Gears

Author:Jeff Lynne

“That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.”

Policy Gears Switching

Author:Ridley Scott

“It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.”

Want Real Hard Actors Difficult Directors Ten Gears Collaborators

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.”

Men Wells Littles Enough Hate Community Differences Making A Difference Gears Overrated Agitate

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.”

Want Made Lasts Sound Records Modern Software Tails Chasing Identical Gears Plugs

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.”

Able Mom Performers Gears

Author:Faith Hill

“I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.”

Needs Left Seeing Middle Fields Approach Gears Fastballs Left Field

Author:Anthony Rizzo

“Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.”

Writing Song Football Series Starting Boundaries Crucial Timing Stopping Protective Gears

Author:Christine Lavin

“Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.”

Ifs Believe Long Belief Ambition Distance Runners If You Believe Gears Long Distance Distance Runner

Author:Sam Abell

“I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky”

Thinking Knows Age Wanted Young Car Tvs Lucky Luck Young Age Gears Top Gear

Author:Richard Hammond

“Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.”

Should States Painting Battle Weapons Prepared Preparation Be Prepared Brushes Gears Readiness

Author:Richard Schmid

“Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility.”

Social Responsibility Sells Advertising Goods Broads Social Responsibility Gears

Author:Leo Burnett

“Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.”

Wells May Age Views Possibility Promise And Love Filled Aging Simplicity Well Being Atmosphere Hardship Allowing Sage Gears Precious Gifts Vaults

Book:Freedoms After 50

Source: Freedoms After 50

“Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?”

People Inspirational Crowds Standing Out Gears Camouflage

Author:Peter Thomas

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.”

Winning Challenges Extras Reaching Gears Accelerate

Author:Orrin Woodward

“I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.”

Way Ends Fixed Bike Bicycle Gears Messengers Trios Cyclists

Author:Matt Skiba

“I always say this will be my last Metal Gear, but the games in the series that I've personally designed and produced-Metal Gear on MSX, MG2, MGS1, 2, 3, 4, Peace Walker and now MGSV-are what constitute a single Metal Gear Saga. With MGSV, I'm finally closing the loop on that saga.”

Lasts Games Series Metals Closing Gears Loops Walkers Saga Metal Gear

Author:Hideo Kojima

“I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.”

Turns Conscious Machines Boxes Buying Gears Collectors Vintage Analog

Author:Martin Gore

“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.”

Mind Age Values Space Office Lows University Spending Staring Thinker Shifting Gears Princeton Staring Into Space Princeton University

Book:In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed

Source: In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed

“You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can’t take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike”

Add Fixed Bike Gears

Author:Graeme Obree

“Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.”

Religious Atheism Commitment Absolutes Reverse Gears Inconsistency

Book:A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings

Source: A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings

“The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.”

Knows Way Children Made Grows Fit Demand Adults Bases Method Ignorant Made It Operations Gears

Author:Steven Biko

“Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.”

World War States Feelings Voice United United States Support Civilization Lows Islamic Clash Gears Muslim World Top Gear Clash Of Civilizations

Author:Husain Haqqani

“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.”

Thinking Men Mind Has Beens Philosophy Might Easy Wonder He Man Broken Naked Reputation Confused Exposed Engines Examination Gears Cogs Misperception So Confused

Author:PZ Myers

“Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.”

Able Numbers Economic Keys Activity Negative Impact Attraction Thanks Regions Initiative Expansion Funding Gears Closure Processing Retention Ontario Windsor Essex

Author:Sandra Pupatello

“Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'”

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

Knows Angel Yankees Gears Goodwill New York Yankees

Author:Chili Davis

“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?”

Lines Fire Crazy Shots Blue Block Chiefs Hockey Nhl Gears Yelling Puck Goalies

Author:Ilya Bryzgalov

“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.”

Way Years Mean Reason Done Stories Wanted Novel Failing Written Students Becoming Short Story Opera New Ways Essays Gears Screenplays

Author:Ray Bradbury

“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.”

Trying Real Country Hard Shows Together Drag Gears

Author:Andrew Bird

“Once we tune in to what we feel in our heart and Spirit, our intuition kicks into gear and starts to communicate with us in so many delightful ways.”

Way Feels Heart Spirit Communicate Intuition Kicks Tunes Delightful Gears

Author:Sonia Choquette

“The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.”

Years Firsts Running Lows Equipment Scratches Gears Accounting Fixing Overhead Running A Business Learning Everything

Author:Li Ka-shing

“There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.”

Character School Memories Education Expenses Gears

Book:Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

“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.”

Ifs Years Looks Ideas Sometimes Desire Rooms Views Share Window Let Me Photographer Stranger Determined Treasure Curtains Furniture Gears Cooperatives Puzzled Predetermined Vantage Point

Author:John Pfahl

“We need to put our faith and trust in the people on the frontlines -- and back it up with real resources. We need to make sure first defenders have the gear and support they need, and the benefits and protections they've earned. With new technology and ingenuity, by doing more to sustain our first defenders and calling on Americans to do more for their country, we can make our country stronger, safer, and more secure.”

People Needs Firsts Real Country Technology Support Calling Benefits Resources Stronger Protection Our Country Secure Gears Ingenuity New Technology Defenders Frontline

Author:John F. Kerry

“the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.”

Facts Attitude Quality Structure Profit Psychological Generosity Tenderness Altruism Indispensable Family Life Gears Bankruptcy American Family

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.”

People Want Hard Play Rooms Saws Stage Gears Packing

Author:Grimes

“What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.”

Kind Different Term Chance Interesting Acting Different Kinds Most Interesting Gears

Author:Edward Norton

“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.”

World Looks Games Differences Player Gears

Author:Tiger Woods

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

People Two States Moving Creativity Creative Gears Creative People

Author:Guy Claxton

“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.”

Persons Two Sides Situation Cases Weakness Subtle Coins Gears Two Sides Strength And Weakness

Author:Steve Jobs

“I mean its a weekly occurrence that somebody will complain that Top Gear was on last night - and you just sit back and wait for the complaints. But if you start to pay attention to everyones concerns, you end up with something bland and boring. So you sort of have to ignore everybody in order to do the show how we want to do it.”

Ifs Want Mean Ends Shows Lasts Night Order Waiting Pay Attention Concern Boring Complaining Pay Attention Complaints Last Night Gears Bland Top Gear

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

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