Quotes of: Tinkering Keyword

It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.

Mad Tinker's Daughter

If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be no trade for tinkers.

Traditional

Innocence is a better world.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

Leroy Chiao

While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

James Finn Garner

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: ‘This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is (21).

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No", said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot o...

Michael Sheen