Tubes Quotes - Page 2

• If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.

  James Patterson

  Baby, Jobs, Mean

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• Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

  Rob Thurman

  Clothes, Maids, Sock

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Motorcycle, Trouble

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• People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

  David Mitchell

  People, Becoming, Obscenity

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.470, Random House

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• Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Teaching, Play

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• I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Giving, Guy, Looks

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• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mean, Cells, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

  Phil Donahue

  Ideas, Selling Things, Vehicle

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover Girl lash blast, in the orange tube.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Orange, Trying

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• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  Gail Collins

  Optimistic, Past, Flying Cars

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• The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

  Benjamin Carson

  Together, Empires, Moral

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• The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

  John le Carre

  Opposites, Intelligence Services, Secret

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• I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

  Jo Brand

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Lunch with Mariella: Jo Brand". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

  Germaine Greer

  Brother, Average, Crushed

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Subway, Seats

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• I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Moving, Want, Able

  "Kevorkian Tells Gupta ‘Death With Dignity’ Laws Don’t Go Far Enough, Doctors Should Administer Life-Ending Drugs". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

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• Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

  William Arthur Ward

  Wise, Time, Learning

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• I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

  Josh Turner

  Fun, Water, Trying

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• 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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• So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.

  Robert Lanza

  Cells, Blood, Feet

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• When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.

  Alan King

  Running, Morning, Apples

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