Quotes About Equipment

#1. I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).

Roger Clemens

#2. It's just that myth about your equipment," I said. "Ain't no myth, man.

Robert B. Parker

#3. Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Julia Child

#4. Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

Bernie Sanders

#5. Great video comes from thinking humans, not equipment.

Steve Stockman

#6. The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

James Balog

#7. You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

Sylvester Stallone

#8. Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

Joan Crawford

#9. And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

John Abizaid

#10. The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

Elliott Abrams

#11. On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.

Robert S. Beecroft

#12. I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

Zach Condon

#13. I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

Kyle Parker

#14. Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

Maureen Johnson

#15. Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

Sylvester Stallone

#16. We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.

David Leslie

#17. In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature.

Eric Schneiderman

#18. I was gazing underwater at the brightly colored landscape that had been hidden from view, forgetting to be afraid that my equipment might fail, that against all evidence I would sink to the bottom and die a watery death, even that I was afraid at all.

Jojo Moyes

#19. I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

Graham Brown

#20. Gospel bands should take note: More musical equipment is stolen from churches than from clubs or concert halls. For this reason, musicians should be careful leaving instruments unattended in houses of worship.

Attorney Rich Stim

#21. I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Stephen King

#22. Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

Stieg Larsson

#23. There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

Knute Rockne

#24. When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Frank Press

#25. Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

Alan Parsons

#26. Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Uta Hagen

#27. We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

Philippe Perrin

#28. Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!

Ilona Andrews

#29. Maybe every other band in the world has more brains and deeper meaning, but only Black Sabbath sounds like exactly what my friends and I might have done if we'd had the equipment.

John Darnielle

#30. Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

Murray Gell-Mann

#31. You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But ... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

Neil Gaiman

#32. The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

Arthur C. Clarke

#33. The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.

Paula Wall

#34. At the restaurant, we strive to create an excellent experience for our guests, and in the kitchen, we could not do this without having access to the best ingredients, equipment and tools, including Victorinox Cutlery.

Daniel Humm

#35. I didn't get to see enough of your equipment. You ran away, remember? So how do I know if it's excellent or not? But I can assure you, mine is.

Riley Hart

#36. In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

Major Owens

#37. A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

Dave Barry

#38. The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are very important in that they make it easier to do the things which bring success and in some cases are essential to success.

Ray Bergman

#39. Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Irving Penn

#40. As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

Brian Krzanich

#41. Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.

Carl Andrew Spaatz

#42. You were in the equipment shed with Corn Fritter?"
"Corndog," Will, Dr. Salter, and I say simultaneously.

Miranda Kenneally

#43. The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.

Nick Kelsh

#44. Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.

Sergey Biryuzov

#45. War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

Chiang Kai-shek

#46. I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

Sam Bradford

#47. You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

John Madden

#48. The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

James C. Maxwell

#49. Ok that's enough from both of you. I am a bit more concerned about the fact that they all have these fancy martial arts type shit but only one of these fuckers is equipment with a god dam gun to hit the field.

Ana Elise Meyer

#50. I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

Oliver P. Smith

#51. Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#52. A lot of times I'll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they're riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.

Kelly Slater

#53. I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.

Sean Booth

#54. As Director of the FBI, I am sworn to ensure that my special agents have what they need to protect themselves and the citizens of this country, and that they are trained to properly use and properly deploy that equipment in the right times and places.

James Comey

#55. Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.

Charles Duhigg

#56. It isn't equipment that wins the battles; it is the quality and the determination of the people fighting for a cause in which they believe.

Gene Kranz

#57. We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

Henry Cuellar

#58. Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

John Amery

#59. I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment and if my mind plays games on me, I just fall back on the team.

Jimmie Johnson

#60. There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

Gene Kranz

#61. Tsukiko Saionji: He doesn't look like a weed whacker.
Aoi "Flippy" Kyogoku: But I'm a computer hacker, and a safe cracker, and a butt smacker ... and I've got just the right equipment to trim your hedge.

Yuu Watase

#62. We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

George W. Bush

#63. I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Bob Iger

#64. Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Bob Feller

#65. I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

Don McCullin

#66. The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

Erwin Rommel

#67. I can do anything a man can do except get a hard-on--and that's only because I lack the equipment.

Marla Buchanan

#68. For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Wendell Berry

#69. Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

Keith B. McCutcheon

#70. I've been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I'd grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots.

Rob Machado

#71. An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.

William DeWitt Hyde

#72. I do have a website that's updated regularly. It's a great way for potential clients to check out my work anonymously. As most of my web visitors would be interested in my work (not my history, the equipment I use, my "philosophy", etc.), it's my work that's predominantly featured on the site.

John Keltonic

#73. Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

Barton Seaver

#74. Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.

Brian Tracy

#75. I probably should work harder on relationships, but I don't, and there's not the same kind of imperative as when you have all the right equipment to make a human being together.

Guy Branum

#76. A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.

Darin Strauss

#77. If you can't test it, it's not theorics
it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

Neal Stephenson

#78. You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.

Fred Upton

#79. The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

Zong Qinghou

#80. I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.

Harbhajan Singh

#81. At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.

Eric Holder

#82. Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

Helmut Newton

#83. SCUM will become members of the unwork force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds and unwork... SCUM office and factory workers, in addition to fucking up their work, will secretly destroy equipment. SCUM will unwork at a job until fired, then get a new job to unwork at.

Valerie Solanas

#84. If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

Eugene V. Debs

#85. Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

Ridley Scott

#86. Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far - reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. ... You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

Adelard Of Bath

#87. Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

Learned Hand

#88. From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it.

Mario Andretti

#89. Camarin and I are both baffled by the pleasure humans find with bowling. The noise is maddening, the equipment unsanitary, and the repetition boring.

Elizabeth Langston

#90. Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook ... I learned how important the right equipment is.

Jen Lancaster

#91. And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

Yasmine Galenorn

#92. I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Susan Orlean

#93. In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Florence King

#94. The tools we used in Mercury were primitive, but the dedication of highly trained people offset the limitations of the equipment available to us in these early days and kept the very real risks under control.

Gene Kranz

#95. I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

Adam Jones

#96. Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

John Abercrombie

#97. Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Clyde Tombaugh

#98. When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Douglas Coupland

#99. My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.

John Daly

#100. All these last offices and ceremonies that concern the dead, the careful funeral arrangements, and the equipment of the tomb, and the pomp of obsequies, are rather the solace of the living than the comfort of the dead.

Augustine Of Hippo