Top 100 Gear Quotes
#1. You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill ... and Goodwill gave it back.
Chili Davis
#2. The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
Sophocles
#3. Back in gear, she closed the door on him. She leaned against it, felt the heat drain from her cheek into the cold wood. And then the dog was there with her in the narrow hallway. She smelled the meat on
Nick Hornby
#4. A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Anatoli Boukreev
#5. You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can't take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike
Graeme Obree
#6. I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.
Paul Parker
#7. When I dreamed about becoming a fantasy adventurer, I was always a max-level character with epic gear. Look at me. I'm wearing vendor trash.
Noelle Alladania Meade
#8. Somehow Chinese toxins fit right in with the Don's taste in gear. Austrian shotgun shells, Cuban baseball bats, Israeli silencers, Russian things he could only guess at - the Don was known for his upscale mob accessories.
Bruce Rousseau
#10. Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
Bill Gothard
#11. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is.
Mindy Kaling
#12. A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm.
Jason Clarke
#13. a couple years prior we were hitchhiking to a gig with no gear. Now we were on a fucking tour bus. We could eat for free at a catered backstage buffet. Life was good.
Duff McKagan
#14. Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.
Paul Nicklen
#15. Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.
Marius Vieth
#16. My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
Karen O
#17. Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
Philip Wylie
#18. They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all their gear. Their rubber overshoes and their nylon bodysuits. Their knives, their hammer, their bag of nails. They had come to do a job on us, like they'd done on Morrison and his wife.
Lee Child
#19. I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.
Nicolas Cage
#20. The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.
Jonathan Lethem
#21. She whipped around and found Hud standing there staring at her. He was in ski patrol gear today, looking official.
And officially hot.
Jill Shalvis
#22. Once we tune in to what we feel in our heart and Spirit, our intuition kicks into gear and starts to communicate with us in so many delightful ways.
Sonia Choquette
#23. This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that wed ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadnt said that.
Richard Hammond
#24. I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
Martin Gore
#25. Clegg, Miliband, Farage resigning (rumours that they are to be the new Top Gear line-up cannot be confirmed at this time).
Charles Stross
#26. Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming!
Party On!
A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead!
Party On!
My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river!
Party On!
Cody Lundin
#27. We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.
Barack Obama
#28. When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn't have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal - having lost a few good ones in New York - and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city.
Thomas Gibson
#29. Be patient. Be strong. Fight back where you can. The Imperial war machine falls apart one gear, one gun, one stormtrooper at a time. The New Republic is coming. And we want your help to finish the fight.
Chuck Wendig
#30. I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.
Moby
#31. Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn't a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my watch and check my gear instead of crying. I had a mission objective and not a broken heart.
Ally Carter
#32. I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.
Giuliana Rancic
#34. The technical aspects of doing motion capture and actually, you know, capturing the motion, is very different. It's an interesting learning curve to be part of because you have so much gear on you.
Noel Fisher
#35. My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud
#36. While I'm driving, I've got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil pressure. I've got car data and body data all together. It's all on the dash.
Charlie Kimball
#37. The FedEx truck backed into the driveway with an irritating beeping. The team was ready, combat gear on, locked, and loaded.
Bob Mayer
#38. Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.
Valerie Steele
#39. OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird?
Ilya Bryzgalov
#40. I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
Lindsey Vonn
#41. The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He'll shoulder his gear, be hittin' the trail;
Long gone, long 'fore he'll be back.
M.J. Eberhart
#42. Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London
#43. Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.
Clive Swift
#44. Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.
Jay Kay
#45. So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear. So
Ben Aaronovitch
#46. One kind of person is engaged in society without realizing it; another kind engages in society by controlling it. The one is a gear, a cog, and the other an engineer, a driver. But a person who has opted out has only his ability to express his disengagement between his existence and nothingness.
John Fowles
#47. Amanda's panties were going to need scuba gear if they got any wetter.
Olivia Cunning
#48. I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry.
Annie E. Clark
#49. When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.
Caroline Knapp
#50. I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound.
Volker Bertelmann
#51. I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.
Hunter Hayes
#52. The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without bit. Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green. They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one another; they were vastly excited, the horse being the only animal who has adopted our ceremonies as his own.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. I sometimes wonder whether most people choose their hobbies because they lust after the gear more than for the benefits of the activities themselves.
Aidan Chambers
#54. Dude! said a party pony as he unloaded his gear. Did you see that bear guy? He was all like: 'Whoa, I have an arrow in my mouth!
Rick Riordan
#55. My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.
Timothy O'Donnell
#56. All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.
Banksy
#57. When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.
Rob Brown
#58. Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely
personal relationship with their gear.
David DuChemin
#59. I had a few pimples here and there when I was 14. Never had braces though, thank God. A girl in my class had, like, the big helmet of head gear. I felt so bad for her. People always made fun of me enough because of my name.
River Viiperi
#60. Gear-shifting is thus a phenomenon of a higher logical type than giving gas, and it would be patently nonsensical to talk about the mechanics of complex gears in the language of the thermodynamics of fuel supply.
Paul Watzlawick
#61. The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul.
Dan Groat
#62. No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end
of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough ...
Mark Donohue
#63. I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
Adam Ferrara
#64. Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me ...
Rick Riordan
#65. During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.
Jessica Seinfeld
#66. I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.
Lisa Loeb
#67. Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables,
Roald Dahl
#68. I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.
Kevin Morby
#69. If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
William Monahan
#70. It's always a little more difficult after taking a few years off, which we did from 2004 through 2008. It's more difficult to get the machine in gear again, but when you become used to it, then it becomes easier.
Chris Squire
#71. Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometimes you just can't bear another gear or pair of wings or vampire teeth. You go on a fast, and sometimes you come back, and sometimes you don't.
Catherynne M Valente
#72. Formula One is a mind game, no question. You have to think so hard sometimes smoke comes out your ears! And if you don't keep your head in gear the car will overtake you
Mika Hakkinen
#73. I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' for Nintendo GameCube.
Hideo Kojima
#74. I've got a bunch of circuit-bent boxes and things that are controlled by my Mac through a big breakout box. I want to create this total environment where I can bring all this gear to the show but maybe just use one or two elements, if that's what's called for.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#75. I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.
Billy Sherwood
#76. Pantycount for the evening is: 10 thongs, 2 boy shorts, 3 bikini briefs, 1 pair boxer shorts (represent!). There's also something we can't identify which may or may not be some type of bondage gear. You guys are awesome.
Ashlyn Kane
#77. I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
Paul McCartney
#78. As impossible as it may sound, but the CEC uses a calibration gear of 1,000 teeth to project a one day's measure of time (PI) onto a right triangle alongside the speed of light value (x=2.99792458) while uttering thereby the time it takes light to reach Earth coming from the Sun (8.3 minutes).
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#79. I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.
Bertrand Meyer
#80. My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
Bruce Coville
#81. Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.
Ashley Wagner
#82. Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.
John Sherman
#83. Each player should make every effort to bring a variety of the best-sounding gear he can, because it will not only make the recording sound better, but will also make the music a lot more interesting.
Bobby Owsinski
#84. The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.
Carl Honore
#85. You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.
Richie Hawtin
#86. When you need them, agents are at your disposal. And any special gear you'd like?" "As a matter of fact... Yes. I'll give you a list.
Nathan Edmondson
#87. It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.
Grimes
#88. Head gear, plus acne equals ... table for one in the cafeteria.
Zach Galifianakis
#89. The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
Chase Jarvis
#90. It wasn't a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you'd have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid) Yeah, maybe next time I'll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#91. God, I can't get rid of you." Exasperation had her throwing up her arms.
"I specialize in pain in the ass, darlin'." He smiled, forcing himself to gear down the intensity.
"Well, congratulations, because you clearly graduated with honors.
Laura Kaye
#92. Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won
some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it
but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.
Laini Taylor
#93. God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you.
Joe Budden
#94. I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!
Hideo Kojima
#95. Pamela shook her head as she swiveled the computer screen so Noah could see the grainy black-and-white video of a group of men in SWAT gear approaching a box. Soon there was a bomb-bot poking the thing, and finally a new man in protective gear picked it up. "Harley is being stalked by someone her
Lucy McConnell
#96. There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
James Iha
#97. We're far from having too much horsepower ... my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.
Mark Donohue
#98. I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
Tony Blair
#99. Jodi in tactical gear was something to behold. Pert, a lot shorter than I am, blond hair tucked under a helmet, cinched into body armor never intended to mold to the body of a curvy woman. Ugly but efficient attire. Someone needs to talk to armor designers about female body shapes and style.
Faith Hunter
#100. My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
Jay London
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