Gears Quotes - Page 12

• I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

  Rupert Giles

  Pride, Thinking, Order

  "Fictional chracter: Rupert Giles". TV Series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ("Some Assembly Required", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Pieces, My Favorite, Meter

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cutting, Talking, Shoes

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• You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

  James Lileks

  Feet, Stronger, Tanks

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• Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always driven, or he takes the train, or he gets the bus. I was saying 'Well, why don't we ring the changes for the 21st Century, and stick him in the car?'. [Executive Producer and son of the author, John Simenon] said, 'Well, you can if you want, but there'll be lots of people who won't like it'. So he's a non-driver ... But no, Top Gear was never a consideration for me; and neither was I asked

  Rowan Atkinson

  Son, Frustration, Car

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.

  Julian Assange

  Wall, People, Doe

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• When a friend puts out a new album and it's really great, it makes you want to do something that great and it makes you get yourself in gear. It's healthy competition that helps make some great music.

  Matt Wertz

  Healthy, Competition, Want

  Source: maroonweekly.com

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• Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Self, Vortex

  "Man's Place in Nature: The Human Zoological Group". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1966.

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• I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for a while. Then I worked at the Apple store because I wanted a discount to be able to buy new gear to edit things while I was figuring out whether or not I wanted to go to film school. Those were the main things.

  Meera Menon

  Art, School, Years

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

  Peter Travers

  Skills, Directors, Psychological

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• I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Nice, High Heels, Clothes

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• I spent most of the 90s trying to make it as a producer - which is a difficult game to get into at the best of times, let alone pre internet - and then I got married, had three boys and we moved house. I had to sell a lot of my gear, so a lot of the original set up went. I was busy being a dad and working, but still loved music.

  Ekoplekz

  Dad, Boys, Games

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go.

  Chad Harbach

  Book, Space, World

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.

  Shelby Harris

  Children, Sleep, Night

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would involve either spending loads of money on gear or else cutting demos in a proper studio. But I had this Casio keyboard and tape recorder and used to do stuff in my bedroom - I'd listen to Mantronix and all that. That was what I had so that's what I used.

  Ekoplekz

  Cutting, People, Stuff

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Song, Thinking, Pops

  Source: collider.com

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

  Jacques Maritain

  Religious, Commitment, Atheism

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• There's the larger shiny Marvel universe where everybody has new gear and it's all made of chrome and leather. And then there's Deadpool. I think the world that he explores is a much seedier, everyday sort of ordinary type world. But he still lives in that universe. It still has to sit next to all these other films.

  Timothy Miller

  Thinking, Everyday, Next

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I think, and there's a pretty strong economic consensus on this, that at that juncture you should spend more, even though it may sound illogical to some people when the revenues are down, but spend more to juice things up and then do the cuts later once you're back, your economy is back in gear and running.

  Thomas B. Edsall

  Running, Strong, Cutting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

  Mark Donohue

  Power, Car, Not Good Enough

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• The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Important, Cameras, Different

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.

  Husain Haqqani

  War, Islamic, Civilization

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• The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.

  Steven Biko

  Children, Ignorant, Adults

  "I Write What I Like (The Quest for a True Humanity)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• 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

  Add, Fixed, Bike

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• Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

  Jon Pareles

  Artist, Imagination, Ego

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