Knobs Quotes
39 quotes by 33 authors
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But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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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…
— Raymond Chandler
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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…
— Shane 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,…
— Mervyn Peake
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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…
— David Sedaris
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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
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Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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…
— Charles Dickens
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I find that hard to believe. Nothing comes free in this world. Ever. (Sin) Then get up and get dressed. There’s the door. I’m sure…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I could eat a knob at night.
— Karl Pilkington
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Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."…
— Cassandra Clare
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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…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian…
— Gordon Korman
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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…
— Madeleine Albright
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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…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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
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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…
— Mark Twain
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Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and…
— Raymond Chandler
Who Wrote These Knobs Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 39 Knobs Quotes, led by these top contributors: