Gears Quotes

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

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.

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.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

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.

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

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.

Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.

Mouth in gear, brain stuck in neutral.

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

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?

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.

Don't spend money on gear. Spend it on plane tickets.

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.

As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.

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

[Ryan Reynolds] is my favorite [ on Top Gear] - I think he's the most hilarious actor who just has not been able to catch a break in terms of being known as the most hilarious actor.

Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.

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

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.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

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.

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.

Listen up,” I said urgently. “It’s time to round up your gear. I’m gonna check in with Patrick, and then we’re getting the flock out of here.” Ha-ha.

I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.

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

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

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

Music is my juice. I like building gear and making records.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.