Lathe Quotes

#1. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

James Van Allen

#2. A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Bill Gates

#3. [R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.

Kato Lomb

#4. Peaseblossom reached down to grab the goblin, and Of the Lathe the Swarf reacted quickly, thrusting his small hands into his pockets and throwing a shower of silvery scraps over the elf. Peaseblossom screamed in pain as he fell from his horse.

Terry Pratchett

#5. It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.

Henry George

#6. I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

Robert Harris

#7. Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.

Elena Ferrante

#8. History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

Max De Pree

#9. The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

James Lileks

#10. I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind.

Roshani Chokshi

#11. Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ...

Jane Hirshfield

#12. It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

Katharine Hayhoe

#13. The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Elaine May

#14. You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

Peter W. Smorynski

#15. They say God watches us in every moment. But I think, in some moments, when some deeds are done, he turns his face away.

Mark Lawrence

#16. I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

Lenny Bruce

#17. Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.

Diane Di Prima

#18. If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

Henry Ford

#19. Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble ... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Benjamin Graham

#20. See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

#21. Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid.
That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.

Clive Barker

#22. I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.

Patti Smith

#23. Labor looks different in the 21st century. And so should our job training programs.

Leila Janah

#24. He's good at that, David Beckham - he's good at kicking the ball

Jimmy Armfield