Quotes About Tube

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff-adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.

A mosquito head with huge bug eyes and an oily feeding tube was affixed to a monstrous, batlike body the color of liver. The wings were webbed with engorged blood vessels, and from its belly hung two rows of hairy, withered dugs.

What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins!

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

London is more than its museums and landmarks. It's a living, breathing, thriving organism...a coral reef of humanity. You can enjoy some of Europe's best people-watching at Covent Garden, Victoria Station, Piccadilly Circus, or any of the major stops on London's subway system, known affectionately as the Tube.

It was a belt canteen of flexible synthetic divided into half-litre pockets. The weight was taken by shoulder straps and a tube ran up the left suspender, ending in a nipple near his mouth, so that he might drink without taking it off.

Kisten probably has one in here," she muttered, then turned with a tube of what looked like lipstick. "Ta-da!" Ta-da, huh?

This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other.

More pre-Christmas revelers on the Friday-night Tube: girls in ludicrously tiny glittering dresses risking hypothermia for a fumble with the boy from Packaging.

Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential to leak, just like air leaking out of an inner tube.

So far as they're concerned, the physical fronts don't exist. Except for a mouth and an anus, their patient doesn't have a body. He isn't an organism, he wasn't born with a constitution or a temperament. All he has is the two ends of a digestive tube, a family and a psyche.

He pinpointed the reservoir from the man's pilot relief tube, already half-full. "Must be a nervous sort of fellow—" He set it to backwash at full power, and checked the audio transmitter. Savage swearing filled the air briefly, overridden by a snarl calling for radio silence. "Now, there is one distracted soldier.

IV. IN THE MIDST OF FIRE          Pull the secondary emergency lever! cried the professor through the speaking tube to Washington. We must reach the surface at once!     Are we damaged? asked Andy, scrambling to his feet, for the shock had knocked him down. The professor had not fallen because he

Hadn't I been humiliated when I was looking longingly at Roger Federer's twin on the Tube and he offered me his seat? Our bodies continue to make fools of us as we age. Lust doesn't die to spare the sensitivities of the grossed-out young who prefer not to think of wrinkly couplings, and - this is really cruel - carnal feelings are among the very last to checkout.

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.

A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound.

Help!" cried C-3PO from a tangle of sparking wires on the floor of the passage tube. "I think I'm melting!" Sighting R2-D2, he added, "This is all your fault." R2-D2 beeped in disagreement.

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

He sat on the tube knowing he was going to hell. The only way to reduce the hot forks when he got there was to ring Katie and Mum as soon as he got home. An

The bear is stabbed on its side and a ten-inch needle or tube is inserted into the gall bladder, and then usually just left there with a pump attached. The bile contains an acid used in traditional medicine to . . . well, who cares what it's used for. It's completely mad and completely obscene.

Do you want to share a black cab?' Black cabs were an extravagance that Neve couldn't afford, not this far away from payday, but that wasn't the reason why she declined. 'No, thank you. I'm perfectly all right with catching the tube.' 'OK, tube it is,' Max agreed, because he was quite obviously emotionally tone deaf and couldn't sense the huge 'kindly bugger off' vibes that Neve was sure she was emitting.

the test of a real Borsalino hat is to roll it into a cylinder, roll it up into a very tight tube, and pass it through a wedding ring. If it emerges from this test without permanent creases, and if it springs back to its original shape, and if it is not damaged in the experience, it is a genuine Borsalino.