Tubes Quotes - Page 9

• I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

  Arthur Smith

  Knows

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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• The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

  Ivan Pavlov

  World, Body, Canals

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• In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Children, Fun, Mean

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• If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

  Freddie Mercury

  Knows, Ifs

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• I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

  Jay McInerney

  Crazy, Mean, Interesting

  "The beautiful and the damned". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

  Norman Mailer

  Baby, Children, Book

  1971 'The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian', in Village Voice, 21 Jan.

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• I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, War, Fighting

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• This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it, and come up with all the answers to the problems of the human race.

  Frank M. Robinson

  Believe, Science, Boys

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• My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

  Steve Cropper

  Running, Digital, Mixing

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• Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.

  Axel Munthe

  Dog, Glasses, Hands

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
  Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Color, Long

  "Monet in the 20th Century". Book by Paul Hayes Tucker, 1998.

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• You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.

  H. R. Haldeman

  Toothpaste, Cant

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• I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.

  Robert Hanbury Brown

  Distance, Tired, Science

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open.

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Play, Sound

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• There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

  John Logie Baird

  Mean, Rays, Television

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• The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Office, Democracy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.
  Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.

  Marian Keyes

  Sex, Fighting, Makeup

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• I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.

  Graham Swift

  Dog, Animal, People

  Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

  Clifford Stoll

  Rays, Keyboards, Rooms

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• The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a network of processes involving feedback tubes. Humans are part of the larger whole, Gaia.

  Fritjof Capra

  Patterns, Life Is, Feedback

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• Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

  H. R. Haldeman

  Political, Campaigns, Toothpaste

  Quoted in Hearings Before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of the United States Senate: Watergate and Related Activities (1973).

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• But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Reading

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• A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

  Darin Strauss

  Player, Guy, Tragedy

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.9, Random House

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