Tinker Quotes

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford

History, Today, Live

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint

Music, Mind, Heart

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
Deepak Chopra

Human, Everything, Brain

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.
Michael Sheen

Girl, Children, Young

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.
David R. Brower

Control, Enough, Simply

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.
Brittany Murphy

Time, History, Give

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
Andrew Bird

Songs, Inspires

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.
John Barton

Give, Cannot, Sometimes

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.
Elvis Costello

Past, Away, Wrong

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Manmohan Singh

Good, Government, Past

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.
Peter Carey

Work, Morning, End

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
DeForest Soaries

Power, Put, Stay

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Harry A. Blackmun

Death, Shall, Longer

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.
Michael O'Donoghue

Real, Easy, Move

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Arthur Bloch

Long, Enough, Break

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
George Ryan

Death, System, Shall

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