Top 50 Mechanic Quotes

Man, it was a great ride back in the day. Obviously, I started out in WCW, and I was a good mechanic back in the day. Got fired from that gig, made a turn for ECW.

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.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn’t do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you’re done, don’t make your hobby your job.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Let’s face it. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom was a cop: my college options in seventh grade didn’t look that great. And the chance I got to go to college and experience college life is something that’s pretty precious to me.

If you’re the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People’s lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It’s a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

There aren’t any real dumb people in my voices. It’s always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue – there’s so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

I’ve spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic.

I’m a huge NASCAR fan, but I’m not a gearhead. I’ve never been into fixing cars. It’s not because I don’t like it. I would love to know more. It’s just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn’t a mechanic.

My dad was a mechanic, and I have great style memories of him. He wore, every single day: a blue chambray shirt, Levi’s 501s, and Red Wing boots. And that certainly wasn’t fashionable at the time; it was basically the opposite. And he wore these horn rim glasses that were very Sol Moscot.

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

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.

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

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now – I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

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

I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother – she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master’s there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn’t go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

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

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.

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.

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

We continue to see more and more of that – games we didn’t necessarily know would work in VR until a developer goes in and discovers the game mechanic that makes it come together. Sure enough, hockey can be a great VR experience.

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I’d just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling ‘new dwarf – car’ on the stub.

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

My best mentor is a mechanic – and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn’t have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

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

It’s very hard to respect people on holiday – everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity – but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it’s a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

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

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

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

You can’t get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown’s teacher.

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

Actually, I’ve been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

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

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

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.

With my own home, I feel like I’m the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home.

I like to think I’m a good mechanic for the company. ‘Oh well, we sprung a leak? Call Ambrose; throw him in there.’ I like that because I think it has really upped my value with the company, and I think that they realize nowadays, too, another Dean Ambrose isn’t going to walk through the door anytime soon – or ever.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

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.

I’ve been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

My mother’s dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

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

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