Quotes About Taking Things Apart

#1. I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

Mackenzie Davis

#2. Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

John Alexander Morrison

#3. I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

Chris Carmack

#4. Ruth believes that boys are not found around stables because what they like is taking things apart and putting them together again, and for this purpose horses are not so satisfactory as cars, motorcycles, and even bicycles, while girls adore horses because they are biological and have functions.

Wallace Stegner

#5. And how that lady Suz was all wrong: art is not all about chaos, about taking things apart. True art, Emma will tell them, is about finding a way to make what's broken whole.

Jennifer McMahon

#6. My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

Amy Ray

#7. As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really.

Haroon Mirza

#8. The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

Mitchell Baker

#9. Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Douglas Adams

#10. I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me ... it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

Shahzia Sikander

#11. I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

Jacques Derrida

#12. Just. Sometimes everything falls apart at once, you know And I'm slowly putting it back together, but it's taking a freaking eternity.

Jolene Perry

#13. Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Gil Gerard

#14. When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

Koren Zailckas

#15. Women are such a mystery and it is such a wonderful adventure trying to work them out. It's like repeatedly taking a watch apart and then putting it back together again, but every time you are always left over with extra pieces, though never the same ones

Dimitris Mita

#16. We're changing our ways, taking different roads, and love will tear us apart again.

Ian Curtis

#17. Zulu, we do this quick and easy," Ray said. "No ripping his chest apart, taking out his heart, and painting his blood across the pavement."
"Come on. I did that once, and you still won't leave it alone." I shrugged my shoulders and leaned back in the van's backseat.

Kenya Wright

#18. I'm going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I'll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in a hurricane!"
"Wow," I said, reaching an intersection and taking cover by an old mailbox.
"What?" Tia asked.
"That was a really good metaphor.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.

Nora Sakavic

#20. As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

Jonathan Ive

#21. I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

Oliver Kahn

#22. A strange thing - nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

Mark Lawrence

#23. I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Margaret Atwood

#24. I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

Jane Hamilton

#25. He would seduce her so thoroughly that she would no longer be able to conceive of herself apart from him; she would be his for the taking, anytime he wanted, anywhere, and in any way he chose to take her, able to deny him nothing. He

Karen Marie Moning

#26. 'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Bronson Pinchot

#27. Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and taking them apart again, fitting the pieces together another way until it feels right, as right as she can make it feel.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#28. Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.

Mel Brooks

#29. Reread favourite books as if you are taking apart a clock

Lemony Snicket

#30. I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

Sadie Jones

#31. When you feel as though your life is falling apart, it's really just falling into place in the hands of God. He's taking your "Ending" and transforming it into His "Beginning." When all hope is gone . . . there is faith.

Cherie Hill

#32. There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Sissy Spacek

#33. Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

Megan McCafferty

#34. Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.

Alexandra Robbins

#35. I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

Rebekah Nathan

#36. I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

David Antin

#37. Successful entrepreneurs don't have better ideas; instead they have better mindsets for taking action. Action is what sets apart an aspiring entrepreneur from others.

Farshad Asl

#38. I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#39. Jesus is taking an ax to our pride when He tells us the truth about our emptiness apart from Him.

Bill Mills

#40. Lying in the dark, waiting for sleep, I wondered if thos paths would just keep taking us further and further apart, and if a day might come when we would be strangers to each other once again.

Leigh Bardugo

#41. I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.

Grandmaster Flash

#42. I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart.

Tracie Peterson

#43. From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

Homaro Cantu

#44. Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Joe Hill

#45. Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

Rohit Shetty

#46. Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

Miranda Hart

#47. I think too, Jay Lethal being apart of Ring of Honor and being in that role where he's one of the guys who has the company on his back, he's taking that very seriously, and you can see it n his work. So it's been really cool to see.

Adam Cole

#48. Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and become one.

Amy Litzelman

#49. I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

Geddy Lee

#50. I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#51. If there was a National Tweaker Olympics, Oregon would bring home the gold in every category (Living in Squalor, Poisoning Your Neighbors, Developing Facial Scabs, Public Aggression, Theft of Useless Things, Taking Stuff Apart, and Crazy Talking).

Laurie Notaro

#52. When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow ... and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.

Ian Curtis

#53. You hear these stories about people who take apart their radio and put it back. Or just learn a lot from taking it apart. But I wasn't as into that stuff as I was just into how computer programs work..

Mark Zuckerberg

#54. wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

Tim Harford