Puncture Quotations

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

I work best when people are here to puncture me

We started out as if we were on a qualifying lap but got a puncture near the end.

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap but we got a puncture near the end but we got it home.

We're still looking at the tire and trying to find a concrete determination as to why the tire went down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear-related at this point.

No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.

Obviously it has to do with the puncture in the balloon in the tech world.

Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. Then Hiroshi came back at me and we were all running closely together until I collected a rear-right slow puncture and that cost me the chance of winning the stage.

We lost the lead but it's OK. There's still a long way to go. We didn't get a puncture like on Wednesday and I'll be starting in the lead group on the next stage. So navigating will be a bit easier.

were covered in hundreds of pounds of cow intestines, which they had to puncture with their mouths, suck out the liquid, fill a glass with it then drink the juice.

Tire debris and wheel shrapnel resulted in damage to the No. 2 engine, puncture of three fuel tanks, and severance of several hydraulic lines and electrical wires. Additionally, a large hole was torn in the top wing skin which covers the wheel well area.

Today's stage was quite varied. There were places where you needed to be very careful. It was muddy in parts and some puddles of water stood in sheltered areas. Other places were much faster across rural farmland and you could push a little, but after the puncture we had no chance of setting a fast time.

The tire went down, lost air pressure. We talked to Jimmie and he had felt the tire start to go down in Turn 1. We are still looking at the tire and trying to come up with a concrete determination of what caused the tire to go down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear related at this point.

Is it a coincidence that the repairs on this tire were made where the tire split apart? This is not a coincidence. The tire industry has been condemned here. . . . The tire was coming apart where the puncture repairs had been made.

The building is fine with the exception of the little puncture on the end of the building.

There's always this sly grin underneath. He's willing to poke fun, to puncture pomposity at any time.

It's just been a few puncture wounds. It's not going for the throat-type wounds.

I have only been to there once last year and in spite of our result (8th after losing the lead due to a rear puncture and resultant brake failure) I thoroughly enjoyed the roads. They are very challenging and command respect, especially with all the rocks that can be dislodged and dragged out into the racing line. You have to drive to stay out of trouble just look how many crews were like us and had at least one puncture last year,