Valve Quotes

49 quotes by 45 authors

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
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
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
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
I fast every Sunday. I donâ€™t eat anything. Just juices. [â€¦] It flushes out the system, cleans out the colon. I think thatâ€™s great. To… — Michael Jackson
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
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
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
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. — Anne Carson
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
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
- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot. — Ian Doescher

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