Quotes About Fiddling

#1. I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.

Ellen Goodman

#2. I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

Sam Walton

#3. In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

Gary Hamel

#4. I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

Jim Benton

#5. He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection?

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#6. I'm scared," Nico mumbled. He was fiddling with something - a little metal toy soldier of some kind.
"Stop talking!" Dr. Thorn said. "Face me!

Rick Riordan

#7. The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

Carroll Smith

#8. He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

George Orwell

#9. Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

Aziz Ansari

#10. If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

Paul Waner

#11. To stop staring at you, I kept fiddling with the sugar until you stopped my hand with yours.

Daniel Handler

#12. If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Hal Abelson

#13. It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Richard P. Feynman

#14. His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Edmund Wilson

#15. At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Roy Harper

#16. Wow, " Ben said. He thought Eddie's mother must be really weird. He was unconscious of the fact that now both of his hands were fiddling in the remains of his sweatshirt. "Why don't you just say no? Say something like 'Hey Ma, I feel all right, I just want to stay home and watch Sea Hunt.

Stephen King

#17. I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.

Natalie MacMaster

#18. Anyway, since when are you shy? Just talk to him already!' '
'And say what? Nice fiddling, handsome man?'
'Absolutely.

Laini Taylor

#19. We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

Michael Scheuer

#20. There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

James Branch Cabell

#21. I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.

Jenson Button

#22. We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn ...

David R. Brower

#23. One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

Jonathan Brandis

#24. Arch turned and looked at Ian. The other man was fiddling with the neckline of his shirt. "You're just jealous, Ian, and wishing you had a soul mate of your own. In fact, I don't think any woman will be safe until you get one." Ian shot him an unamused look at his words.

Rose Wynters

#25. She's always been the one to tell me about her bedroom adventures, not the other way around. To put it plainly, I have no problem talking about other people having sex, but talking about me having sex, well, that's a whole other kettle of uncomfortable collar fiddling.

L. H. Cosway

#26. But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

Jennifer Egan

#27. I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.

Arnold Palmer

#28. It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

C. Robert Cargill

#29. Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

Rick Perry

#30. I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.

Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

#31. Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Jasmine Warga

#32. Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead them from one place to another. Taking still photographs is like that. It is a generative process. It pulls you along.

Henry Wessel Jr.

#33. What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

John Connolly

#34. Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Carson McCullers

#35. New elements, she thought, pleased with the challenge. Roarke had been fiddling, adding some elements and upgrades. When she engaged in hand-to-hand with the second thief, she knew he'd fiddled with the programming with her in mind.

J.D. Robb

#36. Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?"
"I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.

William Goldman

#37. Kat bought a New York Times but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so now she's fiddling with her phone.

Robin Sloan

#38. A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat.
Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.

Suzanne Collins

#39. His seat belt was on, and his hands dropped from where he'd been fiddling with the visor.
"You look small," he finally said, looking both innocent and wise.

Kim Harrison

#40. I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

Douglas Adams

#41. I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

James Mercer

#42. I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

Angus Young

#43. Genetic engineering is not really something new. Human beings have been fiddling with genes for as long as ten thousand years. That's how long they have been growing plants and herding animals.

Isaac Asimov

#44. The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

Ben Howard

#45. Fiddling with a program until it appears to work is a reliable way of obtaining a program that almost works

Andrew Koenig

#46. Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Billy Sunday

#47. The beer was cheap, the fiddling sharp, and the dancing sweaty.

Caleb Crain

#48. His heart cringed from the fanning motion of ribs like pale spiders crouched and fiddling with their prey.

Ray Bradbury

#49. I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#50. I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

Hollis Stacy

#51. She didn't realize she was fiddling with the back of her earring until he took hold of her hand and pressed a kiss into her palm. Without a word, he pulled her into his lap, surrounded her with the two flaps of his corduroy jacket, and hugged her against him.

Becky Wade