Gears Quotations

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process.

The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.

I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

We're going to have to do a great job shifting gears in getting ready for something that's absolutely, totally different from what we've faced, ... It puts pressure on everybody. It is another form of the triple option. The forms of deception that they have with their form of the triple option is unique. It was last year, and it is this year.

I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.

would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was an expert on differentials and made thousands of drawings of gears in his lifetime, largely for military purposes.

My hotel is full of people who need to work here but they don't have a home. We've had to shift gears a little bit ? we're more like a dormitory now.

New memberships in the month of January are at their highest number. The whole industry gears up for it.

Phil's like Tiger Woods. Everybody gears themselves up for him and wants to beat him,

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

He has started some races like this before, where he just gets running and looks like he may be going a little early. He just has a couple more gears and he just keeps jumping, so I just let him go.

It has been a great year for job creation. The gears are in drive and we are going places. We're not going to recover from the loss of textiles and tobacco overnight, but we are getting there.

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

I see all the summer gone by with all the administrative overhead of working the gears of state government.

Our backs were against the wall, we had to produce. We had not played on the level we normally play on. I think we shifted gears and moved to a higher level. I don't know if they were holding out or what.

Look (at) metals prices. As we rebuild inventories, as the whole industry economy starts to gear up, these guys (Freeport does) well. As the global economy starts to gears up, they also do well because they have a significant portion of sales overseas,

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

I wasn't trying to just make pars, because I figured there's some birdies out there, and the last thing you want to do is just go out there cruising and all of a sudden somebody catches you and it's tough to change gears at the time,

My body felt extremely tired, ... I've got five or six gears in me, but I was crunching to get into second without a clutch. It was a tough day.

We had always jokingly talked about Web sites in the past, and since finishing school, my gears sort of shifted. I knew he'd be a good source for input and ideas.

Yeah, I went through the gears a bit today, and I've still got a little in me. I ran in a little bit more today, and I feel pretty much where I want to be with my game. You know its going to be hot, don't you? It was alright, though, and I feel good about the day. I've been inside twice today to get a bit of ice, which felt nice, believe me.

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

We are changing gears here. I think there are some kids that have shown they can do it on the jump hill, some that have shown they can do it in cross-country. Now it's time to take them under our wing and start to build a team. We all want to keep the kind of tradition that started in Steamboat 15 years ago with Todd.

There has been a clear shift in ECB rhetoric and gears are shifting in favor of tighter policy.

We have to change gears now. We have two different style of teams coming up and this gives us something to work on next week. We have to learn from our mistakes and move forward.

When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make 'Snow White.' He saw there was a real opportunity to change the world.

Everybody gears toward stopping No. 22 and with everybody focused on Shelly Paige, it lets our other post player pick up the slack. Ashley did a good job tonight.

Every kid had an angle at him, and you could just see him switching the gears as they got closer.

Our defense played lights out and our offense kind of shifted gears in the fourth quarter. We didn't do anything fancy but our line kind of controlled things.

Now is the time to crank it up and start throwing it into some new gears for the playoffs. Teams are picking up their performances this time of year and when you look at us, we haven't really had any lapses in the last two weeks.

Dozens of companies have swiftly changed gears to take advantage of this emerging opportunity. Many companies are trying to provide piecemeal solutions. There are many brands and co-brands, many form-factors. But one theme that has emerged time and time again from our research is the need for consistency.

This is a real changing of gears for the county. It just makes perfectly good common sense. It's way more affordable.

This morning went really well. We kind of messed up in the second session, with the wrong gears in the gearbox. I'm pretty happy with the car, we still ended up second quick.

As she gears up to run for president, it?s a broader stage, and these issues matter in a way that perhaps they don?t when she?s in the Senate.

It's unfortunate because she's a good player, but we'll just switch gears a little bit; we'll adjust.

It's definitely going to shift gears a lot,

It's confirmation the economy stepped down several gears in the second half of 2005. It is hard to be too pessimistic for the outlook for 2006, but it is one of those indicators that says there is no hurry to do anything on rates.

It's amazing that man. He gears his whole career around the playoffs.

It was a good practice today. We concentrated more on throwing the football. Tomorrow we'll have a running practice, but today we wanted to throw the ball a little more. There was good enthusiasm. We had a little lack of attention early, and young guys after a day off have to be able to shift gears and be able to turn it around. That's the reason you play spring ball.

This is confirming that the Australian economy stepped down several gears in the second half of last year.

The consumer has been out there spending pretty aggressively for some time. I think a reasonable case can be made that we will see growth through the end of the year. There may be some moderation, but the consumer doesn't shift gears on a dime.

If the parents win the upcoming case, it will definitely throw sand in the gears of the 'intelligent design' movement.

I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.

I didn't think we played at all good the first two periods, so I think it proves we have the ability to switch gears like we did in the third. Apparently it only took 20 minutes to play today. It was good.

I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.

I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!

I definitely have to work on a few things -- my restarts, going through the gears and coming in and out of pit road. We now have 200 miles under our belt that we never had before. It was a good start and I am ready to do it again.

I come out in the middle of their set and kind of shift gears a little bit, ... and then the boys take back over.