Monkey Wrench Sayings

#1. The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Tom Hodgkinson

#3. Yours is the only face I'm capable of seeing, the only face I want to see. All my life and knowledge, the whole world, is right there in your face, your brown eyes. You give cohesion to everything I know. Without you in my life, I'd be worse than an amnesiac.

Neha Yazmin

#4. My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Dashiell Hammett

#5. It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

Joan Reardon

#6. And that is the real elephant in the room. The monkey in my wrench. The worm in my candy bar ...

J. Kenner

#7. Alcohol is a metabolism monkey wrench. It can also impair muscle growth for up to five days after consumption.

Skye St. John

#8. Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance. Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to be privileged again.

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#10. Oh my God, calm down, Darwin. Don't get all crazy just 'cause I threw a vampire monkey wrench in your faulty Jesus-zombie logic.

Jenny Lawson

#11. To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

Edward Abbey

#12. Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Alan Ball

#13. There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed,

Ted Nugent

#14. Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

Rajneesh

#15. Deep is where your soul waits while you live like nothing terrible happened.

Sandi Morgan Denkers

#16. Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Philander Chase Johnson

#17. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Robert Hughes

#18. How silly, my dear; don't you know that if I came here as a child, then most of me never left?

Truman Capote

#19. If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.

Charles M. Schwab

#20. In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

Jack Irons

#21. People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.

Stewart Butterfield

#22. I'm quite low-key - Isabel Marant is one of my favourite designers.

Sophie McShera

#23. When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

Leigh Steinberg