Gearbox Quotes

#1. Up through around twenty-five he'd never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.

Lev Grossman

#2. Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

Carlos Ghosn

#3. Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

Peter Ustinov

#4. I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

Mary Quant

#5. I don't know how you got so lucky twice in your life, but I think love found you out on that beach.

T.S. Krupa

#6. I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.

Susan Orlean

#7. The end time worshipper will concentrate on the life of God in him rather than the works of God through him.

Jenny Watson

#8. I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

Paul Ryan

#9. It ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

Tom Waits

#10. That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

Joe Dunthorne

#11. Looking back, none of this would have happened if I'd brought lip gloss the night of the Homecoming Dance.

Rachel Hawkins

#12. Art for Art's Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.

Lara Biyuts

#13. I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#14. I think I was brought up in a respectful household.

Tom Welling