Tooling Around Quotes & Sayings

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. — Thomas Merton

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things. — Tod Machover

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory. — Robert Sheckley

Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking. — Meg Wolitzer

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. — William Shakespeare

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectual mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return. — Kathy Acker

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

He had heard many of his customers talking about 'repetitive strain injury' over the years and he was sure that, if he was capable, he too would suffer this - especially with the industrial tooling he carried around everywhere that he went. — Stephen Craig

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw