Quotes About Switch

certainty. The urge to switch from subjunctive to indicative is, to paraphrase Alastair Fowler, always a powerful

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.

Time to switch to decaf, princess. If you're going to shriek at every bogey that jumps out and says 'boo', you'll be exhausted before we reach the edge of the woods. -Puck

It was not until be landed on a high-tension oil switch near the base of Donivan's tremendous generator that he awoke to a realization of peril.

Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.'

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!

and to whose unsurpassable mastery of ballistics and biomass energetics we owe our third sun that now shines above us with its own famous on-off switch....

So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.

Humour is our 'default mode', if you like: we do not have to switch it on deliberately, and we cannot switch it off.

Barely on the verge of adolescence, I was still a shy girl who preferred math homework to boys. I was neither daring nor particularly unhappy, but booze flipped a switch in me I hadn't even known was there.

The cost in terms of extra time from having to task switch depends on how complex or simple the tasks are

For speechless helpless humans, much power lay in a violent switch of extreme emotions. A crude mode of tyranny. Real-world tyrants were often compared to infants.

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, 'Cut it out.'

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

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'Freaky Friday' was my favorite movie in middle school.

Ah. I understand the switch. You're a bad shot, so you need a bigger target. No wonder you selected my cock.

If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.

Politicians can either keep listening to a small number of polluting fossil fuel companies, who're keen to profit from keeping us hooked on oil, coal and gas, or they can listen to the majority of other voices from civil society to business calling for an urgent switch to low and zero carbon heat and power.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.

There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd

one can be easily substituted for the other.