#tinker

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box. ↗

— Pat Mastelotto

#box #boxes #fed up #i #like

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#back #go #i #i can #realize

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#how #i #i am #keep #know

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#democracy #good #good works #government #nobody

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets? ↗

— Malia Ann Haberman

#chase-tinker #ideas #imagination #magic #thoughts

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#i #longer #machinery #shall #tinker

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on. ↗

— John Barton

#aside #cannot #even #failed #give

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. ↗

— Paul R. Ehrlich

#intelligent #parts #rule #save #tinkering