Top 187 Mechanic Quotes & Sayings

I'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency.

I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland.

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me to give him notes. And they were all male characters, and I said, "You know what would make this character more interesting?" And he asked what - and it's this road trip between three guys, basically, one older man, one 30-year-old and a 13-year-old mechanic. And I said, "If you make the 13-year-old a girl, and you make her an Indian-American mechanic." And he said, "What do you mean?" And I said, "Yeah, don't change anything in the script about him, and just make it a her."

Impossible for wrestler to become doctor or the mechanic. All they know is the wrestling and forever they do this job.

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

There was a period where I dressed sort of like a mechanic and I looked really schlumpy, and I thought, "This is not who I am. This is not who I want to be." It was a very important moment for me - to not hide.

I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I didn't grow up to become a mechanic - but some of my classmates did. And they've been able to build good, middle class lives for themselves and their families.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

I was going to go be an auto mechanic.

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.

My dad is a mechanic from Sheffield and my grandmother lives in Rotherham, bless her.

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

My father, Orest, worked as a mechanic for the CNR and he got transferred to Dauphin from Winnipeg.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

I'd no more listen to a physicist's advice on my fertility than I would let a mechanic cut my hair.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

You don't need a college degree to be a good carpenter, welder, plumber, auto mechanic, member of the armed forces, or firefighter.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

At 20, I was married, working as an auto mechanic, and living in Gainesville. I was doing Against Me!, but it wasn't by any means a full-time gig.

You have no idea how to dance, do you?” Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.