Quotes About Mechanic

were in need of bodywork. It had always amused

Suppose it was too much to hope for a man who could fix an air conditioner and have a soul at the same time.

he can't reveal he has AIDS in his village, or he would be ostracized and lose his job as a mechanic.

I customise and build motorbikes and I can fix them myself.

I've always had good connections with cars and always knew how to fix them, so I didn't have trouble with breakdowns.

My passion outside of music is that I am a total gear head. My wife and I own six vehicles, three of which are off-road.

My life is about building and working and wrenching on some cars.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

Fangio had once said: 'You should never think of a car as a piece of metal. It's a living being with a heart that beats. It can feel happy or sad. It all depends on how you treat it.

My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man.

Anybody that knows me knows that my job was making cars go fast, and mostly breaking them as opposed to fixing them, so it was good fun to get involved and to help the teams.

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

Chet Morton, who was a school chum of the Hardy boys, lived on a farm about a mile out of Bayport. The pride of Chet's life was a bright yellow jalopy which he had named Queen. He worked on it daily to "soup up" the engine. Frank and Joe retraced their trip for a few miles, then turned onto a country road which led to the main highway on which the Morton farm was situated.

My dad was a mechanic, and I have great style memories of him. He wore, every single day: a blue chambray shirt, Levi's 501s, and Red Wing boots. And that certainly wasn't fashionable at the time; it was basically the opposite. And he wore these horn rim glasses that were very Sol Moscot.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

At 20, I was married, working as an auto mechanic, and living in Gainesville. I was doing Against Me!, but it wasn't by any means a full-time gig.

Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.

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

My dad is a mechanic from Sheffield and my grandmother lives in Rotherham, bless her.

I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.