Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

- Jack London

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

- Steven Wright

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

- Richie Benaud

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

- Karen O

We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.

- Kerry King

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

- Jeff Lynne

Younger people obviously are more likely to openly express their political affiliations in terms of gear.

- John Quelch

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

- Jeff Tweedy

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

- John Travolta

My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

- Jay London

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

- Bill Dedman

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

- Hunter Hayes

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

- Hunter Hayes

I always say, 'This will be my last 'Metal Gear.'

- Hideo Kojima

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

- Grimes

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

- Frank Whittle

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

- Ernest Cline

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

- Emily Procter

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

- Douglas Fairbanks

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

- Charlie Sheen