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The Tube
«When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption»
Author: Gregg Easterbrook
| About:
Children,
Television
| Keywords:
obligation, producers, satire, Satires, The producer, The Producers, The Tube, tube, tubes, unsuitable, warning
«I don't have the self-confidence to walk around in a miniskirt and heels and a tube top. I'm still trying to learn to love and accept my body.»
Author: Mandy Moore
| Keywords:
heels, miniskirt, self confidence, The Tube, tube, tubes, walk around
«Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.»
Author: Sir John Simon
(Physician)
| Keywords:
acquires, bathrooms, defies, garland, geometrician, geometricians, intemperately, resembles, resourceful, squeezed, The Giant, The Tube, tubes
«Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| Keywords:
canyon, canyons, climbing, floating, grand, Grand Canyon, inner tube, The Tube, tube, tubes
«UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.»
«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.»
«... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
arm, bent, controversy, equalize, equalized, equalizes, equalizing, height, hold water, hydrostatic, one-armed, paradox, pipe, The Tube, tube, tubes, Wise Men
«In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.»