Appliances Quotes

• There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

  Harriet Van Horne

  House, Vacuums, Television

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

  Raymond Loewy

  Simplicity, Quality, Doe

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• The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

  Bill Vaughan

  Home, World, Wonderful

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Real, Humble

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

  Anthony Daniels

  Appreciation, Kitchen, Greater

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• The most important thing in art is taste.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Important, Taste

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

  John Ortberg

  Doe, Mass, Masterpiece

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• Our children are being raised by appliances.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Raised, Our Children

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• My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

  Bruce Sterling

  Dream, Technology, Twists

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• We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

  Vinton Cerf

  Numbers, Internet, Speed

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• Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

  Richard Neal

  Understanding, Lightning, Lines

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• Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

  Confucius

  People, Sound, Influence

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.297

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• Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

  Dave Barry

  God, Dirty, Kentucky

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• Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Desperate, Cures

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

  Mary McGrory

  Inanimate Objects, Proud, Spiteful

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• To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

  Grant Achatz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Espresso

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• I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

  Vinton Cerf

  Wells, Devices, Household

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• The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

  Jeff Bezos

  Home, Thinking, Light

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• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Home, Air, People

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Home, Garden

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable...

  Maurice Strong

  Eugenics, Air, Class

  "Agenda 21: The U.N.'s Earth Summit Has Its Head In The Clouds" by Larry Bell, www.forbes.com. June 14, 2011.

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• ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Long, Rope

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Past, Color

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.24, Harper Collins

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