Mechanic Quotes

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Home
  • Death
  • Die

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • Uplifting

• If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Programming
  • Mechanic
  • Quantum

• God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • God
  • Help
  • Running

• Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics.

  

  Yahtzee Croshaw
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Toil

• I went from being an auto mechanic to being on stage. It turned into a very good living and opened a lot of doors. I met a lot of celebrities

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • Stage
  • Living
  • Doors

• There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Political
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

  

  Marston Morse
  • Work
  • Moon
  • Not Interested

• Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Irrational

• The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Creator
  • Mechanic
  • Careless

• I don't think about delivery. I don't think about mechanics. I just think about throwing hard.

  

  Eric Gagne
  • Hard
  • Throwing
  • Delivery

• Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Study

• The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.

  

  William Whewell
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Pride

• I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Mechanic

• Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

  

  William Cowper
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Made

• The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Revolution
  • Birth
  • Physics

• I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Reason

• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Problem
  • Magician
  • Carpenter

• But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

  

  William Cowper
  • Water
  • Summer
  • Conversation

• While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

  

  Ivar Giaever
  • Behavior
  • Quantum
  • Electrons

• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Art
  • Today
  • Religious

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