Quotes of: Tinker Keyword

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Andrew Bird

I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.

Woody Norris

The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the ba...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of sight, as if in spite of myself I were always descending a hill, rounding a corner, stepping into the street with a companion who urges me on, while I...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown s...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts of most . . . No, in the plant world, and especially among the flowering plants, fecundity is not an assault on human values. Plants ...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering a...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

Kane Freeman

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

DeForest Soaries

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

George Ryan

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

David Hanson

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles de Lint

In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love with a young man who had to make frequent long journeys away from the city. When he sat with her at home, she used to trace the ...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.

Mae Whitman

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

Nancy Etchemendy

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

Eric Roberts

America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.

Clive Thompson

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

Giles Foden

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

Gever Tulley

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Arthur Bloch