Tinker Quotes

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I`ve tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

It`s very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

History is more or less bunk. It`s tradition. We don`t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker`s dam is the history we made today.

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

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

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

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.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

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.

Anytime there is an effort to tamper or tinker with the icons of American culture, you`ll find you get strong reaction one way or the other,

Sometimes I have an idea and I`ll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I come up with lyrics around it and see where it`s going. Sometimes I have the lyrics in my head and sometimes I imagine another artists singing the lyrics, like a famous person singing the lyrics, and that`s kind of how I figure out how they should sound based on who I would want to sing the song.

The original Dogs of the Dow strategy is actually not a bad one. It has discipline, it`s simple, and if you stick with it and don`t tinker with it, you`ll end up with a diversified portfolio that should do well.