Mechanic Quotes
9 quotes
"Well I don't know the English word, but in Welsh we call it a be'chi'ngalw."
"If your trust is in man, your joy will soon be buried in the cemetery. If you hope is in cars, your happiness will soon be found in the mechanic shop. You are missing it if man is your hope."
"You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit."
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
"Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road."
"There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic."
"The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn."
"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."
"A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal."