#mechanics

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#forever #golfers #hasn #mechanics #swing

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#appreciate #around #critically #democracy #essential

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#democracy #experience #fear #having #lived

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#as far as #collaborations #craftsman #engaged #far

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#car #commission #customer #gets #hero

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#assigned #behaves #fundamental #gives #histories

Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#money

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. ↗

— James Van Allen

#fan #had #i #magazines #mechanics

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#feeling #give #gratifying #me #mechanics