Fixing Things Quotes

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.