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Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

Gordon Korman

Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into my nuts?

Bob Saget

Doors, Nuts, Doe

Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the room with these big recording desks, with all these, like, buttons and knobs and watching the guys use them.

Mark Ronson

Guy, Buttons, Use

"The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.

Richard Dawkins

Believe, People, Half

Source: inters.org

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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Raymond Chandler

Perfect, Mind, Television

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But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lingers, chasing the squirrel from the tree and the children from the meadows. There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, – there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Summer, Spring, Taken

"The Procession of the Flowers: And Kindred Papers".

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One time I forgot my costume, and I had to do a scene in my pants, and I got my knob caught in a clapperboard.

2D

Pants, Costumes, Scene

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Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

D. H. Lawrence

Doors

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.187, Courier Dover Publications

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I pissed away over ten million dollars
On dope and crack
I passed away deader than a door knob
But now I'm back

Al Jourgensen

Dope, Doors, Cracks

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I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

Nellie L. McClung

Doors, Bye, People

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One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.

Mona Van Duyn

Grandmother, Thinking, Hands

Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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You push a button and it goes all over the world and on Sunday people are saying, 'Oh, I binge watched all 10 of them. Where's more?' and you go oh, the world has changed. It's not my dad walking to the television set and turning a knob to Ed Sullivan.

Jeffrey Tambor

Dad, Sunday, People

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First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

Terry Pratchett

Running, Book, Cutting

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Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Long, Environmental, Mars

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The late '60s and the '70s, a lot of this really beautiful equipment was being made and installed into studios around the world and the Neve boards were considered like the Cadillacs of recording consoles. They're these really big, behemoth-looking recording desks; they kind of look like they're from the Enterprise in Star Trek or something like that. They're like a grayish color, sort of like an old Army tank with lots of knobs, and to any studio geek or gear enthusiast it's like the coolest toy in the world.

Dave Grohl

Beautiful, Stars, Army

"Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Chris Isaak

Hate, Two, Car

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Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists.

Dan Jenkins

Music, Eye, Body

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Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed [the song] together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the board turning knobs. The atmosphere and the vibe down there was just super cool.

Alex da Kid

Song, Home, Artist

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

Mark Twain

Science, Men, Years

Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.165, Univ of California Press

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Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Running, Oasis, Long Ago

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I could eat a knob at night.

Karl Pilkington

Night

"The Ricky Gervais Show" Podcast, Series 1, Episode 3, www.pilkipedia.co.uk. December 19, 2005.

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An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

Shane Black

Cacophony, Too Much, Action

"Crash, bang, wallop what a picture". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

Willie Soon

Weather, Energy, Climate

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Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

J. K. Rowling

Noses, Sides, Blokes

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I find that hard to believe. Nothing comes free in this world. Ever. (Sin) Then get up and get dressed. There’s the door. I’m sure you know how to use it. It’s a really simple process. You put one foot in front of the other, turn the knob, and keep going. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Believe, Simple, Doors

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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