Switch Quotes
406 quotes by 377 authors
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I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist,…
— Gordon Ramsay
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The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned…
— Robert Redford
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Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew…
— Christina Ricci
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Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
— Frederick W. Smith
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We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was…
— Leo Szilard
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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go…
— Florence Welch
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It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with…
— Terry Pratchett
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There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.…
— Edward Abbey
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Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear…
— Billy Collins
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So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber…
— Douglas Adams
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There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere…
— Jenny Downham
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Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing…
— Nick Cave
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When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you…
— Jodi Picoult
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...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over…
— Naomi Wolf
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Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided…
— Terry Pratchett
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more…
— Lucy Grealy
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But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave…
— Caroline Knapp
Who Wrote These Switch Quotes
377 authors contributed a total of 406 Switch Quotes, led by these top contributors: