Tinker Quotations

I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people... you know, fairy-like stuff.

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

Tinker Bell is a great wing woman. And as somebody pointed out to me, she is also a winged woman.

Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants.

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.

We're just trying to find the right combination. We'd lost three in a row, and that's pretty unacceptable. Our goal is to be relevant in the ACC race. So we're going to tinker until we think we have it right.

I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets.

I think we've lost the set of keys right now. I don't want to tinker around with the carburetor ... I want to take the motor out.

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

That was when the court decided to weaken the Tinker standard. The school really does have to show it would be a serious disruption.

We have to review if there's a need to tinker with our present lineup. If there is, we need to get the right combinations quick to find the answer to this slide.

We're working on two Star Wars TV series, so it's not over yet, ... I also have a feeling that, since George loves to tinker with his films, one day when I'm old he'll wake me and say (speaks in an old voice), 'It's time to rework Star Wars ? one ... more ... time. ' At least, that's my nightmare.

We work out of a similar structure but all tinker about with it in different ways.

We ask all of our job seekers in the out- placement program to only look at the web after 6:30 at night or before maybe 6:00 in the morning, ... It is a soaker up of time and in a job search, you've got to get out and see people. You can't sit behind a desk and tinker with your resume.

There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

The original Dogs of the Dow strategy is actually not a bad one. It has discipline, it's simple, and if you stick with it and don't tinker with it, you'll end up with a diversified portfolio that should do well.

Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.

What we are really looking to do here is not just tinker around the edges, but to deliver a comprehensive solution that addresses employers' needs, ... There are a lot of players out there that do bits and pieces of what Jobster does, but Jobster is the only one that has put it all together into one package.

We will not stand by and let the administration tinker with retirement security. Many Americans have spent their whole lives working for it. So many Americans count on it to make ends meet.

We could say we were releasing oil to drive prices down until they get to $25 a barrel, ... Then OPEC could say it'll cut production to keep prices up. It's a very delicate subject to tinker with.

Bob Fosse was such a genius, I'm not going to tinker with his brilliance, but I've put my own spin on it.

Bleak House is a great baggy thing, the plot doesn't work in all sorts of parts, so you've got to tinker with it. Usually I tell myself, find the spine of the story and stick to that and chuck out anything not related to the spine of the story, but that doesn't work with Dickens. You lose the flavor of him if you don't include all those other extra comic characters that he couldn't stop himself from creating. The plot bulges out. It's like horrible boils or something, but in a nice way.

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.

It would probably have to be pretty narrow because I think both constitutionally and probably politically people don't want to tinker with the commitment to the public school system in a broad way.

Sometimes I have an idea and I'll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I come up with lyrics around it and see where it's going. Sometimes I have the lyrics in my head and sometimes I imagine another artists singing the lyrics, like a famous person singing the lyrics, and that's kind of how I figure out how they should sound based on who I would want to sing the song.

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.

A lot of guys are tinkering with a lot of stuff down here. But I want a job, I want to start, I don't want to tinker with anything. It's all or nothing for me. I want to go out and get people out.

They're going to tinker with it until they get it right. I'm sure they're as frustrated there as I am designing my golf courses ... They're doing the best they can.

As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.

It will be interesting to see if they can tinker with their constitution and ideology to convince us and Europe they have changed their spots.

Not only should I be able to watch things happen in my electronic physics textbook, I ought to be able to tinker with the diagram they have drawn and try out other possibilities.

Anytime there is an effort to tamper or tinker with the icons of American culture, you'll find you get strong reaction one way or the other,

If you tinker with it you so do, as I've indicated a long time ago, at your peril.

You don't have to look very far here at Tinker Stadium to see why tonight's game cannot go on as planned. The Lake Highland Prep baseball coach is disgusted with what he sees. A bathroom in shambles, a grass-less field littered with debris and feces.