John Tinker Quotes

#1. You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

J.M. Barrie

#2. I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.

John Barton

#3. Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

John Schnatter

#4. Earth's nobility are soon forgotten. John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has outlived the whole crowd of those who were the nobility in his day. They lived for self, and their memory is blotted out. He lived for God and for souls, and his name is as fragrant as ever it was.

D.L. Moody

#5. No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. To remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be so serious all the time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Theatrical Trailer (Courtesy of Focus

John Le Carre

#8. The book didn't want to be copied?
I should introduce it to the house that doesn't want any occupants.

A.W. Exley

#9. There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Adam Young

#10. Each man lives in many worlds within different life.
Mind can only see world in which it lived and located.

Toba Beta

#11. Power sits uneasily on those one has grown up with. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Spy.

John Le Carre

#12. I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

Bootsy Collins

#13. I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Charles Bukowski

#14. Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

John Tinker

#15. I think you'd make a wonderful teacher. You have a strong personality. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers.

Jeannette Walls