Quote by Len Goodman

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As

Summary

This quote suggests that as one ages, the body and various aspects of life may start deteriorating or malfunctioning, comparable to a car breaking down. However, it implies that if the issues are repairable, just like a mechanic fixing a car, one can continue living or functioning for an extended period. It highlights the resilience and ability to persevere despite the natural wear and tear that occurs with age.

Topics

Car

By Len Goodman

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; O

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger -- to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

William Wordsworth

Baby Babies

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between i

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effecti

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Evangelism

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

Politics

There is more truth about Human Nature in a good Sci-Fi or E

There is more truth about Human Nature in a good Sci-Fi or Epic Fantasy Novel than in any Non-Fiction. When you're speaking for real, you hide what you don't want others to see. When you're telling a story, you don't hold back.

I Curmudgeon Hugh

Truth Writing Say What You Think

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutt

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

Health

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about im

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

Art

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Famous

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a demo

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

G. K. Chesterton

Revolution

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

William Shakespeare

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into th

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Alanis Morissette

Experience