Knobs Quotes

• Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Silence, Buttons, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Doors of opportunity don't open, they unlock; it is up to you to turn the knob.

  Lili Taylor

  Opportunity, Doors, Up To You

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• Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Shutting Down, Quiet, Tranquility

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.315, A&C Black

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• What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!

  Mervyn Peake

  Time, Hands, Circles

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.239, The Overlook Press

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• Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

  Steve Albini

  Wall, Nice, Trying

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• In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Inspiration, Doors

  Mark Twain (2008). “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Edition”, p.165, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Always look on the bright side of life.

  Graham Chapman

  Positive Attitude, Positivity, Good As It Gets

  Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

  Kevin Kelly

  Reaching, Deep Within, Masters

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.343, Penguin

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The less I needed, the better I felt.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Needed, Felt

  Charles Bukowski, “Let It Enfold You”

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• You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Brain, Brass

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6307, Delphi Classics

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• It can't rain all the time.

  James O'Barr

  Rain, Crow

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Winning

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• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

  Brian May

  Spring, Knitting Needles, Interesting

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Doors, America

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• If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

  Madeleine Albright

  Black And White, Expectations, Intelligence

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• It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Hurt, Twists, Your Best Friend

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• So when the world knocks at your front door,
  clutch the knob and open on up,
  running forward into its widespread greeting arms
  with your hands before you,
  fingertips trembling though they may be.

  Anis Mojgani

  Running, Doors, Hands

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• Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

  Aziz Ansari

  Fun, Men, Keys

  "Fictional character: Aziz". "Human Giant/ Let's Go", (Episode 2), 2007.

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• The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

  Edward Abbey

  Gnarly, World, Metaphysical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

  Alan Cohen

  Song, Wall, Trying

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• If you’re not happy looking a knob in the face, there’s something wrong.

  Karl Pilkington

  Faces, Not Happy, Ifs

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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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