Switch Quotes

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. (Maria Callas)
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. View quote
Ian Fleming
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. View quote
Wynonna Judd
We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow. View quote
Leó Szilárd
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 Germany. She said, 'Cut it out' View quote
Steven Wright
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? View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.Please, just tell people to use KDE. View quote
Linus Torvalds
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up. (Tony Abbott)
In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scales If the price is right, there's time for more appeals The strings are pulled, the switch is stayed The finest lawyers fees are paid And a rich man never died upon the chair. View quote
Phil Ochs
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. View quote
Florence King
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders. View quote
Arthur Symons
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters Since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all.Watched the men who rode you, Switch from sails to steam. And in your belly you hold the treasure That few have ever seen. Most of them dreams, Most of them dreams. View quote
Jimmy Buffett
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs. View quote
Larry Wall
My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. View quote
Meg Cabot
People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive. View quote
Novak Djokovic
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering. View quote
Peter James
You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess." "Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane. (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
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. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. View quote
Denis Waitley
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. View quote
Corazon Aquino