Appliances Quotes - Page 2

• I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

  Dane Cook

  Giving, Toasters, Today

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• Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Guarantees, Murder, Majors

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.392, Penguin

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• JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.

  Lance Ulanoff

  Delight, Way, Owners

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• And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Energy, Requirements, Building

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• So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Government, Fuel Economy, Way

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• America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Country, America, Years

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• Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Real, World, Internet

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• Ive just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

  Uri Geller

  Usa, America, People

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• There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Psychology, Electrical, Units

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

  Betty Friedan

  Dream, Grandmother, Envy

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

  Michio Kaku

  Christmas, Powerful, Law

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• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  Nate Berkus

  White, Kitchen, Steel

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• Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Science, Simple

  A CertainWorld "Behaviorism" (1970)

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• Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Temperance, Asks

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.276

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• You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Flower, Redneck, Yards

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• A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

  John Tenniel

  Art, Wigs, Wasps

  "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.

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• Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.

  Louise Hay

  Spiritual, Jobs, Grateful

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• Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures.

  Mark S. Fowler

  Toasters, Television

  Interview with Reason Magazine, May 1982.

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• Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

  J. K. Bharavi

  Success, Fruit, Be Patient

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• In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.

  Bob Blumer

  Art, Passion, Wine

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• Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

  Andy Rooney

  Modern Life, Way, Faces

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• Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  White, Should

  "'Herbie' Fueled by Danica Craze". www.foxnews.com. June 22, 2005.

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• Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a key, we have forgotten the importance of fallow time and winter and rests in music. We have abandoned a whole system of dealing with the neutral zone through ritual, and we have tried to deal with personal change as though it were a matter of some kind of readjustment.

  William Bridges

  Winter, Keys, Car

  William Bridges (1980). “Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes”, Da Capo Press

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• Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Rain, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.296, Adam, Stevenson

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• The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Special, Use, Study

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