Cog Quotations

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

With the inherent value in Cabot's capital program, we recommenced buying shares in late November and early December with the market pull back. We still see a lot of merit and long-term value for the shareholders in looking at COG stock as an investment alternative.

She shouldered the load last year and she is again this year. She was a big cog in getting us to the state final last year.

I am excited for this excellent opportunity to go back to and coach at my alma mater. This will be an exciting challenge to be a part of the great athletic department here at Southern Utah and hopefully be an important cog in the future of this program.

Certainly it was a blow. He had had such a good spring. He's a key cog to this whole club.

He's a key cog in the No. 1 defense in the NFL, so we're going to need him.

He's been a main cog for us. When he's on the ice he makes things happen. He keeps getting better, and we need him to get better.

That's been our lineup since the preseason. When you take a cog out of that, it kind of throws everything off and put us off-balanced. We came out in the second half and played some basketball with our starting five.

Up until now, it's been very reflective of how they envision themselves being a part of the process, or another cog in the wheel, ... If anything, they're a little bit too much on the reticent side.

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

B-G is a well-balanced team. Jennifer Patten is the key cog to the wheel, but the rest of the team is solid. There's nobody you can forget about. I really think Patten makes them go, but the other girls do all the things that don't show up in the box score ? and they really get after you defensively.

Dilbert's trials and tribulations as a corporate cog make him an ideal mobile game star. The game will appeal to anyone who has experienced cubicle life or has dealt with office bureaucracy.

Do you remember that story I told you back in January? Well now that you're actually going to be a witness, now that you're going down to testify before the grand jury, I don't want you to give the grand jury a false impression. I don't want you to give false information to the grand jury. I don't want you to be a cog in the wheel of an obstruction of giving the grand jury the opportunity to hear the truth. I need to recant for you what I told you.

That organization was a culture of corruption. My client was not a leader, he was a follower. He became a cog in the wheel.

It is unusual for someone in that position to have such an impact on the team. He really appreciates the skills it takes to play that position. He anchors our passing game and is the key cog in our defense. He passes more than anybody else on our team. And every point starts with a pass. Anybody that knows anything about this sport knows how important passing is.

It's one thing to play well on a bad team. But it's better to play well on a good team. You have to be a vital cog (to be considered) and Mike is.

It makes me remember how important it is to take stock of these things. We are all just one big cog in a bigger system.

It was nice to have Eric Manning back for his first game. He is a cog in our offensive and defensive lines.

I'm disappointed right now in our quarterback play, ... They are such a vital cog in the offense. At that position, you need decision makers.

He's the glue of our team. I've said that all along. Spare parts are very important, but he's the one cog we can't really miss. He'll make any contract look reasonable.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.