Tinker Quotes
48 quotes by 44 authors
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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…
— Deepak Chopra
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...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive…
— Ronald Reagan
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker…
— Henry Miller
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But…
— Katherine Stinson
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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
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Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.
— John Schnatter
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It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies,…
— Albert J. Nock
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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
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,
— Harry A. Blackmun
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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe…
— Steven Johnson
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As good marketers, we like to tinker with things and make them better.
— Michael Freeman
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If it's not broken, tinker with it till you find out how it works.
— Bob Proctor
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These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit…
— Franklin P. Adams
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I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life…
— James McBride
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We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.
— William James
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I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's…
— Tom Hardy
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
— Arthur Bloch
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
— Manmohan Singh
Who Wrote These Tinker Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 48 Tinker Quotes, led by these top contributors: