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  • They reached the carriage house. When she turned the knob, he got all critical again. “Why isn’t this door locked?” “It’s Parrish. There’s not much point.” “We have crime here, just as any other place does. Keep this door locked from now on.” “Like that’s going to stop you. All you’d have to do is give it one good kick, and – “ “Not from me, you ninny!” “I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but if they find my body, you’re the one with the biggest grudge.” “It’s impossible to hold a rational conversation with you.

    Hate   Doors   Giving  
  • Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

    Science   Men   Years  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.165, Univ of California Press
  • Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

    Music   Creating   Bars  
  • Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

    Jesus   Prayer   Heart  
    Twitter post from Feb 04, 2013
  • I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

    Morning   Wind   Rose  
  • 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!

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

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

    Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.343, Penguin
  • It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. 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. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

    Taken   Dark   Self  
  • Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

  • I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

  • 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.

    Uncles   Brain   Brass  
    Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6307, Delphi Classics
  • 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?

    Doors   Nuts   Doe  
    Twitter post from May 21, 2013
  • Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

    Fun   Men   Keys  
    "Fictional character: Aziz". "Human Giant/ Let's Go", (Episode 2), 2007.
  • Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

    Essays "Circles" (1841)
  • Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

  • The late '60s and the '70s, a lot of this really beautiful equipment was being made and installed into studios around the world and the Neve boards were considered like the Cadillacs of recording consoles. They're these really big, behemoth-looking recording desks; they kind of look like they're from the Enterprise in Star Trek or something like that. They're like a grayish color, sort of like an old Army tank with lots of knobs, and to any studio geek or gear enthusiast it's like the coolest toy in the world.

    Beautiful   Stars   Army  
    "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.
  • I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

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

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks
  • One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.

    Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me.

    Home   Doors   Office  
    David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
  • Doors of opportunity don't open, they unlock; it is up to you to turn the knob.

  • Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists.

    Music   Eye   Body  
  • 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.

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

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
  • An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

    "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.
  • I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

    Dope   Doors   Cracks  
  • People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.

    Believe   People   Half  
    Source: inters.org
  • I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.

    Mixing   Three   Way  
    Source: www.spin.com
  • I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.

    Records   Tone   Made  
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