Tubes Quotes - Page 9

• One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Future, Glasses, Looks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.13

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• For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

  William Carlos Williams

  Book, Thinking, Wind

  1949 Paterson, bk.3,'The Library'.

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• A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Egypt, Expression

  The Conservative Political Action Conference, February 11, 2011.

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• Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hands, Television, World

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• There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

  Arnold Friberg

  Paint, Colour, Knows

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• As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

  Noam Chomsky

  Long, Television, Privilege

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.76, Macmillan

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• The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube. And in our case, what we're communicating here to people is not necessarily something they want to hear. And so, our demeanor - how we deliver this message - takes on crucial, crucial importance.

  Phil Plait

  Ideas, People, Humanity

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• Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Looks, Communist

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage

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• Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
  The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
  Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Blow, Blood

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.145, Pearson Education

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• Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Long, Age

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics”

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• Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

  Fannie Hurst

  Light, Giving, Radiation

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• Here's what we [Americans] need: a 30 second you tube video of some guy at a party constantly checking out everyone else at the party, while he pretends to be speaking to the other person. We're the other person. The guy are the politicians. And the distraction is the corruption: We need a Congress that can afford to talk to us. For at least one drink or so.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Party, Guy, Needs

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• Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

  John Ridley

  Father, Gay, Rights

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Past, Vision, Doubt

  "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 1, 1911.

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• TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Law Courts, Ideas

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

  Nam June Paik

  Rays, Canvas

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• Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Counting, Simultaneous, Wilson

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• For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Entertaining, My Friends

  Source: www.charlierusso.com

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• Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

  Robert Moog

  Simple, People, Kitchen

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• I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Law, Knowing, Harvest

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• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

  Lance Morrow

  Might, Mail, Modern Life

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• The internet is a series of tubes, and all of those tubes are filled with Joe Francis' semen.

  Theodore Stevens

  Internet, Filled, Series

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• Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

  Jimmy Carr

  Cat, Robots, Legs

  "Bears". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Going on You Tube, you see a lot of my videos. And I'm glad; there's numbers there. And I get this all the time, that when I'm actually in concert, there's a whole new level to it. There's this whole new energy level. It's hard to describe. But I just love to play, and I never take it for granted.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  Play, Numbers, Energy

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