Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Arthur Bloch
Arthur Bloch

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

Billy Collins
Billy Collins

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint

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.

Crescent Dragonwagon
Crescent Dragonwagon

One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it a whole lot, and tinker with it according to my taste.

Darell Hammond
Darell Hammond

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Darell Hammond
Darell Hammond

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

David Harbour
David Harbour

I was very resistant to my intellectualism for a while. I do start with an intellectual idea for a character. A lot of the times, it'll be the opposite of what I feel like is on the page, or it'll be just an idea that I read in a psychology textbook or in a philosophy book. I'll apply something to it that I can start to tinker with.

David R. Brower
David R. Brower

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.