Valve Quotes
49 quotes by 45 authors
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing…
— Seth Godin
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A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn…
— Hugh B. Brown
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There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of…
— Gene Lees
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REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
— Ambrose Bierce
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No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern…
— Sigmund Freud
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Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve…
— Charles M. Schwab
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
— Wavy Gravy
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I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the…
— Hedy Lamarr
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And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with…
— Paulette Jiles
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that…
— John Kennedy Toole
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the…
— Tom Wolfe
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I fast every Sunday. I don’t eat anything. Just juices. […] It flushes out the system, cleans out the colon. I think that’s great. To…
— Michael Jackson
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What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark…
— Anne Bronte
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Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to…
— Derek Landy
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
— Anne Carson
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It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he…
— Philip K. Dick
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we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you,…
— Anton Chekhov
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- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.
— Ian Doescher
Who Wrote These Valve Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 49 Valve Quotes, led by these top contributors: