Seal Quotes

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

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.

I like fixing things.

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 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.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

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

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

I would never have called myself tech-savvy.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.