Top 100 Quotes About Gears
#1. Humankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalization.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#2. I cannot teach
if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.
James Tiptree Jr.
#3. The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.
Robert M. Pirsig
#4. All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.
Abby Sunderland
#5. The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.
Li Ka-shing
#6. This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.
Steve Almond
#7. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.
David Suzuki
#8. You can't stop the gears of capitalism. But you can always be a pain in the ass.
Jarett Kobek
#9. But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward - then you invent the reasons. My
Frances Mayes
#10. Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?
Peter Thomas
#11. Richard Leacock and I ran into a guy who knew how to carve up a camera, and we had him carve one up for us. We had him chop it down and change the gears from metal to plastic, which would cut down on the sound it made when it was running.
Robert Drew
#12. My timing is perfect, and I wind up in a traffic jam. The cars around me are driven by fat cows and bellowing bulls. We roll along, six mph. I can run faster than this. We brake. They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#13. The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism - an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
Kathryn Schulz
#14. Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
#15. In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.
Steve Jobs
#16. When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
Daniel Handler
#17. You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.
Joe Teti
#18. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear
Casar Jacobson
#19. Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.
Guy Claxton
#20. As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to have my ass handed to be in order to get it into gear for the upcoming Sydney Olmpics. Now, I'm on a mission ...
Xeno Muller
#21. The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.
Elliott Abrams
#22. As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.
Stephen Hunter
#24. Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility.
Leo Burnett
#25. If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process.
Karen Traviss
#26. You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.
Andrew Wight
#27. You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.
Gene Simmons
#28. That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.
Ridley Scott
#29. I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.
James Gunn
#30. Seeing her was a key turned in a rusty lock and now all his gears were churning.
Suanne Laqueur
#31. I think you have to be ready to switch gears and go with the team as a director, as opposed to superimposing your own strict idea of the story. There are very few directors that can micromanage and still come out with something that's living and breathing on a page. Wes Anderson is one of those .
Susan Sarandon
#32. I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.
Roberto Bolano
#33. People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.
Tim Schafer
#34. I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.
Fabian Cancellara
#35. Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.
Blaise Cendrars
#36. Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
Charles Duhigg
#37. You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
Robert Barry
#38. One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's been a revolution in boutique audio companies making excellent gear.
John Vanderslice
#40. And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears."
Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically.
"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.
Terry Pratchett
#41. She made her shoulder blades into steel, willing them to stay rigid against his onslaught. She was a thing of gears and metal, strong like clockwork, and she wouldn't melt down into tears.
Courtney Milan
#42. I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.
Jamie Woon
#43. I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in Metal Gear Solid 3. But you cannot eat turtles.
Hideo Kojima
#44. If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
Karin Slaughter
#45. It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.
Lee Ann Womack
#46. Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have
Martin Luther King Jr.
#47. Do you know what the name Astrid means?" He switched gears again and I was helpless to follow.
"No."
It means 'star'. That's what I think of you as, Abbey. One day I looked up, and there you were. A fiery spot of light surrounded by darkness. You make me feel like anything is possible.
Jessica Verday
#48. Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson
#49. Ah," remarked one guest when the topic arose. "You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time.
Erin Morgenstern
#50. I'm very into the military and police stuff. Gear and technical gear is something that's changing every day and every day you're trying to be on the cutting edge and improve your stuff more and more because your life depends on it. And so, the guns and the gears are changing constantly.
Steven Seagal
#51. It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
#52. The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
Carl Sagan
#53. I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.
Michael Ontkean
#54. It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.
Demetri Martin
#55. I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.
Peter P. Mahoney
#56. I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.
Tom Brady
#57. I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
J. B. Smoove
#58. A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something
John Gardner
#59. Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.
Richard Schmid
#60. The gears of God don't turn unless all the pieces fit right.
Lauren Oliver
#61. The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.
Robert M. Pirsig
#62. Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.
Stephen King
#64. A weird thing happens when you're taken out of your normal clothing and put into USA gear.
Shaun White
#65. I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.
Bryce Harper
#66. I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I start looking for a certain type of pedal, learn the history, who and what it was made for, that kinda thing.
Hank Williams III
#67. Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
#68. Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.
Ron Atkinson
#69. La-Z-Boy type thing covered with bronze and silver gears. Kronos slashed, and I managed to jump straight up onto the seat. The throne whirred and hummed with secret mechanisms. Defense mode, it warned. Defense mode.
Rick Riordan
#71. The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.
Susan Faludi
#72. I'm not allowed to wear my street clothes on TV because Vince McMahon says I don't look like CM Punk when I'm not in my gear.
CM Punk
#73. There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.
A-Trak
#74. The dwarfs were staring at Lady Sybil as she changed up through the gears into full, operatic voice. For an amateur soprano she had an impressive delivery and range, a touch too wobbly for the professional stage but exactly the kind of high coloratura to impress the dwarfs. Snow
Terry Pratchett
#75. I've had enough of stories and lies; enough of silent scribbling. Enough of gears and engines. Enough of daydreams and false futures. Enough of virgins and dynamos.
One word from you is all I want, she said. Just speak one word, and we'll begin.
Enough of wasting time.
Dexter Palmer
#76. The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251
Celeste Ng
#77. You don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience.
Tony Visconti
#78. You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.
Leontyne Price
#79. Old post cards, tin wind-up toys with rusted gears, buttons long out of fashion, ticket stubs found in a shoebox in the attic - these are the things Alice likes, not new stuff that comes sealed in plastic.
Jan Strnad
#80. When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.
Nido R. Qubein
#81. I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft ... As for me, give me a fixed gear!
Henri Desgrange
#82. And there are certain moments in your life when something becomes clear, and other things in the past - things that your mind, unbeknownst to you, had earmarked because they didn't quite add up - suddenly all click into place, like small gears in a watch.
Bridget Asher
#83. Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
George H. W. Bush
#85. The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.
Bryant McGill
#86. The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.
Robert Redford
#87. This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.
Hideo Kojima
#88. ust as loyalty, betrayal is a two way street. Before you start cheating on/for something, the same gears up instantaneously to kick your a**
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#89. The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
Sophocles
#90. If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.
Fiona Apple
#91. The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays ... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
Ray Bradbury
#92. You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can't take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike
Graeme Obree
#93. It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart. The gears of the world turning on while she lived with his absence like a black tumor in her chest, the grief so potent she could barely bring herself to breathe.
Blake Crouch
#94. Maybe the sounds are coming from within his head. Like the teeth cracking off of the gears in his mind, as his sanity begins to break down.
Mike Turpen
#95. Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
Bill Gothard
#96. Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
Philip Wylie
#97. The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again.
Haruki Murakami
#98. I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.
Scott Porter
#99. The minutiae of the common man is the grease that slicks the gears of civilization. She
Brian McClellan
#100. Someday all the wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty houses and trim gardens and planned parks and forests, and a world that works as smoothly as a clock, neatly wound: a world of metal and gears, and people going tick-tick-tick to their deaths.
Lauren Oliver
