Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

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 like fixing things.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

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.

You need to fix it, Mr. Dudley, or we will get someone who will.

So if the wall's cracked or you've got leaky faucets, or you've got mold issues, or some sort of damage to your home, selling a home that's got that kind of distress to it is the biggest mistake you will make, because immediately people who are fearful will walk away.

I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do.

I learned to not be afraid to fix things that break.

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 love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

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

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.