Apart Quote by Christian Marclay

As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them…

— Haroon Mirza

Sometimes the thing that brings us together also pulls us apart. Sort of like a zipper.

— Jarod Kintz

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much…

— Hans Christian Von Baeyer

“When you break something and leave it lying there for someone to pick up the pieces, you don't get much say in how they…

— Kimberley Montague

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

— Paul Lansky

We're all broken in one way or another, some just hold the pieces together better.

— Anonymous

“People talk of the wrench of parting, and that, he felt, was exactly what it was. Take a metal object off a magnet and…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

— Sara Bareilles

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

— Jonathan Ive

I just wondered how things were put together.

— Claude Shannon