Equipment Quotes

• Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Writing
  • Thoughts
  • Equipment

• It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment in as much as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Use
  • Favors
  • Modernization

• We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • Money
  • Crazy

• Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.

  

  Delia Smith
  • Energy
  • Hand
  • Slice

• If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Never
  • Blues
  • Equipment

• They're very organized and the equipment moves in a hurry. They may hit a rig here and the equipment ends up in Houston.

  

  Brad Roberts Crash Test Dummies
  • Hit
  • Moves
  • Equipment

• There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Survive

• Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

  

  Sivamani
  • Music
  • Money
  • Producers

• The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Driving
  • Order
  • Sport

• It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it.

  

  Aphex Twin
  • Have
  • Equipment
  • You Do

• You cannot take a few people from one unit, throw them in with some from another, give them someone else's equipment, and hope to come up with a top-notch fighting unit.

  

  Charles Alvin Beckwith
  • People
  • Giving
  • Fighting

• What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Mind
  • Create
  • Seek

• The teacher's equipment gives him an everlasting job. His work is never done. His getting ready for this work is never quite complete.

  

  George Trumbull Ladd
  • Work
  • Teacher
  • Equipment

• The post office says they're raising the price of stamps by one cent because they need to upgrade their equipment. Apparently, they're going from semi-automatics to uzis.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Equipment
  • Post Office
  • Automatics

• There's absolutely no excuse for throwing a piece of equipment on an umpire or any player. You can argue your point and at times may accidentally bump an umpire, but to consciously throw a piece of equipment at someone is unforgivable.

  

  Brad Ausmus
  • Excuse
  • Arguing
  • Bumps

• Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart.

  

  Wolfgang Weingart
  • Heart
  • Hands
  • Equipment

• Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.

  

  George Madison Adams
  • Character
  • Truthfulness
  • Salesperson

• The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists.

  

  Dave Marr
  • Perfect
  • Golf
  • Junkie

• There's only so much you can do when you're using loaner equipment from the universities.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Equipment
  • Universities

• One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photographer
  • Improve
  • Equipment

• Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.

  

  Dale Jarrett
  • Capable
  • Once
  • Wrecking

• Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

  

  Meredith Brooks
  • Giving
  • Company
  • Electronics

• We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Money
  • Too Much
  • Insane

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