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Quotes About Equipment

Using a weight-forward line's shooting properties is a much more efficient way to get distance.
~ Unknown
Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.
~ Tommy Bolt
If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.
~ Tommy Chong
I didn't know Spartans came equipped with a sense of humor. Does that cost extra?" "No, sir," Fred said. "It's more of an operational bug.
~ Troy Denning
It's no secret that kettlebells were standard equipment for Eastern Bloc strength athletes and old time strongmen—they are excellent for swings, laterals, rowing and a variety of throwing-related movements.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Kettlebells are round lumps of iron with molded handles.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
~ Fred Allen
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
~ J. G. Ballard
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
~ Hugh Casson
A bad magician never gets the good props.
~ Amit Kalantri
For many decades after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union had been closed off, an almost forbidden place, another world. The Soviet oil industry operated largely in isolation, with little of the flow of technology and equipment that was common in the rest of the world.
~ Daniel Yergin
screen. "Then get your gear and head out." When White looked back moments later, Puller
~ David Baldacci
walkie-talkie in the floorboard, with its Talk button taped
~ David Baldacci
Or convincing defense departments to buy expensive war toys that were never even used while ignoring the lesser-priced items, like body armor and night-vision goggles, that grunts on the ground actually relied on to survive.
~ David Baldacci
Poetry, you were talking about," Julie smiles, touching Faye's cheek. Faye lights a cigarette in the wind. "I've just never liked it. It beats around bushes. Even when I like it it's nothing more than a really oblique way of saying the obvious, it seems like." Julie grins. Her front teeth have a gap. "Olé," she says. "But consider how very, very few of us have the equipment to deal with the obvious.
~ David Foster Wallace
fishing equipment and lawn mowers, bought the goods in one branch of Kmart and then returned them in other branches for a full refund. Like most crooks with a workable scam, Virgil Freer did it once
~ Clifford Irving
inspection of kit, dress and rifle
~ Clive James
A list of equipment purchased under MKULTRA Subproject 49 includes "I shock stimulator." Whether the shock stimulator was used as a conditioning tool, to check for hypnotic resistance to pain, or to determine whether a hypnotic subject can perform under stress, is unknown.
~ Unknown
appurtenances
~ Hilary Mantel
Military-grade laser," Conti said. "Very powerful, yet more precise than a jeweler's file.
~ Lincoln Child
he goes about attaching the wench to the undercarriage.
~ Linda Castillo
I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.
~ Mark Noble
My posture is changing constantly with different length clubs. I have to. Whether it's subconscious or not I'm still changing. That's going to put another variable. I said, 'Why can't we make the lengths all the same?'
~ Bryson DeChambeau