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Letter "D" » dials
«A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.»
«2-1-2. It's prestige. It's the Big Apple. And you hardly have to move your finger to dial it.»
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, combination, combination lock, dials, in place, lock
«At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said Certainly. He said Do I need to dial 9? I say Yeah. Especially if it's in the number. You can try four and five back to back real quick.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
back room, back to back, dial, dials, hotel, hotels, Hotel I, hotel room, phone, phone number, quick, real number, The Dial, yeah
«Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.»
«Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.»
«O God! methinks it were a happy life,To be no better than a homely swain;To sit upon a hill, as I do now,To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,Thereby to see the minutes how they run,How many make the hour full complete;How many hours bring about the day;How many days will finish up the year;How many years a mortal man may live.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dials, finish up, happy hour, Happy Life, mortal man, quaintly, swain, swains, thereby
«And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dial, dials, intermission, intermissions, motley, noble, SANS, The Dial, worthy
«If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded.»
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