The Tube Quotes: top 77 famous quotes about The Tube

The Tube Quotes & Sayings

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She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card. — Joan Didion

The liftman in the tube is an eternal necessity ... — Virginia Woolf

I'm missing the bride gene. I should be put in a test tube and studied. — Carrie Bradshaw

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum. — Jools Holland

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas. — Phil Donahue

A mini-cab later and he arrived in Stockwell, where the pit bulls travelled in twos. Ludlow Road is near the tube station, a short mugging away. — Ken Bruen

Fully accelerated particles circled the tube at over 180,000 miles per second. — Dan Brown

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. — Frederick Marryat

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one. — Jeff Smith

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back. — Earl Wilson

And although the world was just the same as it had always been as I travelled home on the Tube that evening, my view of it had been changed forever. — Billy Bragg

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters,
it's not real unless it's on the tube. — Ed Rollins

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight. — Hank Williams Jr.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science. — John B. Watson

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube. — Arthur Smith

I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was. — Margot Robbie

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him. — John Green

60 Minutes, the most watched and most respected news program on the tube. — Mark Bowden

Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts. — Virginia Postrel

With the caution of a gazelle I looked to the closed door ahead of it, and feeling a tickle of fear in my knotted stomach I entered this tube. — Steve Merrick

I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews. — Bruce Forsyth

The average person has one Fallopian tube. — Bo Burnham

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff. — Sandra Bullock

The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala. — Frederick Lenz

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. — Norman Mailer

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats. — Neil Patrick Harris

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind. — Ruth Buzzi

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people? — Andrea Corr

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). — Terry Pratchett

Sure, I've been on the Tube ... I caught it to Eastbourne once. — Serena Williams

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in. — H.R. Haldeman

A true Chicago dog looks like someone fired a bazooka at a vegetable stand, then scraped the remnants off the wall and slathered it on a tube of meat. — Brandon Sanderson

The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite alas. — Emily Dickinson

Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance. — MyAnna Buring

As soon as the train pulled into the station, the red guards would pour out of doors and windows like toothpaste squirting endlessly from a tube. — Yu Hua

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York. — Olivia Sudjic

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque. — Gene Mauch

I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.' — Robert Webb

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. — Bill Sienkiewicz

Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card. — Agyness Deyn

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.' — E.L. James

Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?"
Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please? — James Patterson

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. — John Le Carre

There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it. — Bill Bryson

tube or 2 of these water purification tablets at your home or in your car. If there was ever a shortage or damage to the city supply, you would — Jon Woodward

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be. — Chuck Palahniuk

Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see. — Peter Capaldi

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. — Mantak Chia

He proposed a steam-powered pneumatic tube system to carry telegraph forms the short distance from the Stock Exchange to the main telegraph office. — Tom Standage

Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. — John Green

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas, — Nam June Paik

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card. — Jason Flemyng

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube. — W. Edwards Deming

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue. — Joni Mitchell

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act. — Ellen Goodman

In London, I take the Tube everywhere. — Elizabeth McGovern

The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above. — Frederick Lenz

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment. — Bonnie Bassler

Vimes hung up the tube. Trolls with a message. It was unlikely to be an invitation to a literary lunch. — Terry Pratchett

Aha!" Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. "You motherfucker! I knew you were the father! — J.R. Ward

I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that. — Ian McKellen

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers. — John Dyer

Here was our future of cheese-food and aerosol propellants, Styrofoam and Club Med on the moon, roast beef served in a toothpaste tube. — Chuck Palahniuk

So I turned on the tube (throwback slang from the Nifty Fifties; televisions no longer have tubes) and channel-surfed for awhile. On — Stephen King

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. — Germaine Greer

growled and shook my head,vetoing the whore red tube of lipstick — Kalayna Price

You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube. — H.R. Haldeman

Nature abhors the vacuum tube. — John R. Pierce

I have moments, like a guy saying to me on the tube, "You know, you look a lot like Jessie Ware." — Jessie Ware

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States. — John Ratzenberger

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube. — Henry David Thoreau

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege — Noam Chomsky

Sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble — George Orwell

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change. — Lisa Snowdon

We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence. — James Frey