Orville Wright

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

American Inventor

Joe R. Lansdale

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.

American Writer

Adriano Giannini

I hate the beep beep of the car, when I put in motion and I have not fasten my seat belt. From how annoying this sound is to me every morning, I understand immediately how the day will be.

Italian Actor

Saint Francis de Sales

The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.

Swiss Clergyman

Julia Cameron

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

American Author

Gerald McRaney

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

American Actor

Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Ani DiFranco

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

American Musician

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

Greek Writer

Georges Braque

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

French Artist

Fasten's most common use relates to safety measures, such as seatbelts and helmets.

Safety First

Use fasten when referring to physically joining objects, often implying a strong bond.

Physical Connection

Fasten applies to daily tasks, like clothing or assembling items, and is practical in nature.

Everyday Objects

Use fasten metaphorically for mental focus, like gripping an idea firmly with your mind.

Mental Engagement

Remember, when fasten is about attention, there's no physical action. It's about mental dedication.

Not Literal

When fixing something in place, fasten suggests it won't easily move or come loose.

Secure Placement

Using fasten implies creating stability for an object, like anchoring it to withstand pressure.

Strong Support

Fasten in this sense is similar to 'grasp tightly', ensuring something doesn't slip away.

Firm Grasping

Can express desperation or determination when holding onto something against challenges.

Emotional Intensity

 then these changes, though scary -- and, I say, inevitable -- are ultimately for the better, and therefore something that we should ride out. But I would say that -- and many other authors and speakers about this, other than me, have said, you know, fasten your seat belts because the change is coming. There are going to be big changes.

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 to learn more about protecting the reef researchers also fastened boxes to the ocean floor they're called autonomous reef monitoring systems or arms for short creatures we'll treat them like coral and move right in then in a year or so scientists will come back to collect the

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 We understand that these will become much more virulent, that what we see today is this interweaving of societies, of systems, fastened by technologies and hastened by just-in-time management systems. Small levels of stock push resilience into other people's responsibility.

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 fasten your seat belts get your popcorn and snacks ready let's have a fantastic afternoon Drive I'm super excited Seb is on camera with me as I said in his super excited he hasn't been with me in a few days already said be missing him so maybe it'll be a tie today that

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 legendary king who helped return the ancient practice to its rightful place at the center of Hawaiian culture hula dancers are judged on interpretation style and the authenticity of their costumes the way a skirt is wrapped or fastened the color of the cloth and

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 Right next to Iris is the mucus layer, which keeps the whole thing fastened to her. On top of it is the aqueous layer, which keeps Iris hydrated, repels invasive bacteria, and protects her skin, or cornea, from damage. And, finally, there is the lipid layer,

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 They'd have sent her back home again. Back to him. She tightened her jacket -- well, fastened her jacket tightly to cover the blood. She looked back at herself in the mirror. She looked a little better than before but was past caring.

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 are attracted to its seemingly protected position only to get zapped by the Man O'War now here's the gushy part the digestive organs enter the monstrous drama they wriggle and twist as they fasten their flexible mouths onto the

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 a holy rage rise up it will say stand up inside your own skin unmask your unlived life feast on your animal heart and fasten your fist let loose the medicines from your own

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 these two certainly did to fasten them temporarily i used adhesive tape