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Quotes About Gears

The ticktock of the tiny object full of gears suffocating all existence, wringing life out of life.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Delta to Control, any sniper teams to the south of Embry? Any Gears at all?
~ Karen Traviss
I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
~ Doug Aitken
This is the Valdezinator, of course!' He puffed out his chest. 'It works by, um, translating your feelings into music as you manipulate the gears. It's really meant for me, a child of Hephaestus, to use, though. I don't know if you could –' 'I am the god of music!' Apollo cried. 'I can certainly master the Valdezinator. I must! It is my duty!
~ Rick Riordan
This is the Valdezinator, of course! He puffed out his chest. It works by, um, translating your feelings into music as you manipulate the gears. It's really meant for me, a child of Hephaestus, to use, though. I don't know if you could – I am the god of music! Apollo cried. I can certainly master the Valdezinator. I must! It is my duty!
~ Rick Riordan
WINTER FEAR Is it just winter or is this worse. Is this the year when outer damp obscures a deeper curse that spring can't fix, when gears that turn the earth won't shift the view, when clouds won't lift though all the skies go blue.
~ Kay Ryan
Can it really be that the world- our world- still exists? Or is this just inertia, the generator is off, but the gears are still turning and plodding along- two or three more rotations, then on the fourth, they'll come to a standstill...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
My role models weren't holding steering wheels and mashing gears on Sunday. They wore burgundy and gold with names like Art Monk and Darrell Green.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
~ Ron Perlman
A felicidade universal mantém as engrenagens em funcionamento regular; a verdade e a beleza são incapazes de fazê-lo.
~ Aldous Huxley
A change of oil…yes, that was what we all needed from time to time, whether we were an engine or a person. And there were other similarities to be explored. Engines had to be handled gently, as did people. Forward gears were better than reverse gears—for people as well as engines.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Dorothy," said my mother, shifting gears with an angry little spurt, and we cleared the top of the hill
~ Alice Munro
Reality had briefly slid aside one of its black, opaque panels, to give him a glimpse of the gears that ticked behind it. Saunders had discovered a universal constant, like gravity or the quantum nature of light. No matter where you went—no matter how ancient the traditions, no matter how grand the history, no matter how awe-inspiring the landscape—there was always a market for a cheap Happy Meal.
~ Joe Hill
Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing.
~ Anthony Doerr
There's all the difference in the world between teaching a human being and sanding the gears in a machine. The machine does a job. The human being embarks on a quest. The machine hums a dreary, constant drone. The human being sings. One
~ Anthony Esolen
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
~ Ron Perlman
I'm a big gadget queen.
~ May Pang
I want to be the best with the ball in my hands as a receiver - or as a player, period. And I think when I get the ball, my game changes. I don't know what it is, I just shift gears.
~ Demaryius Thomas
My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.
~ Vic Mensa
But then he decided it wasn't an irony, it was merely the broken gears of time, or the way life can feed you when you're full (youth) and starve you when you're hungry (midlife).
~ Jonathan Miles
For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.
~ Sloane Crosley
'Gears Of War' is one of my favourite games that I immersed myself in playing for long time, and Mr. Cliff Bleszinski is one of the greatest game creators that I respect.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.
~ Stephen Hunter
Sketch shows change gears so drastically every two minutes. I think sketch shows are for sketch fans; they're not really for everybody.
~ Robert Ben Garant