I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.
I feel like a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner do I plug one leak, than another springs.
There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.
It's me who fixes the roof, unblocks the drain, and changes the plug. I'm Spartacus.
I'm not handy.
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.
This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.
Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.
I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.
I was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg?
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
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.
With my own home, I feel like I'm the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home.
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.
I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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.
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.
I like fixing things.
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
Being a big guy, I've got to shore up the paint a lot more. It's my job.
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
