Appliance Quotes

#1. Tenzin said, "More popcorn, my boy."
Giovanni ripped the plastic bag open and held the paper bag. "This is ridiculous. I'm not a kitchen appliance.

Elizabeth Hunter

#2. You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

Jeff Foxworthy

#3. Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

Donald A. Norman

#4. Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

William Shakespeare

#5. JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.

Lance Ulanoff

#6. Finally, his eyes locked on hers, and she gave him a huge, teary-eyed smile. She couldn't tell if he counted because his lips were stretched around the appliance that had kept him breathing. Be in there, Blake. Please. Please, God.

Debra Anastasia

#7. No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

Terry Pratchett

#8. When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

Chip Giller

#9. It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

Gary Mule Deer

#10. Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences.

Vint Cerf

#11. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.

Bryan Q. Miller

#12. Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.

David Kipper

#13. The crucial fact about sustainability is that it is not a micro phenomenon: there can be no such thing as a "sustainable" house, office building, or household appliance, for the same reason that there can be no such thing as a one-person democracy or a single-company economy.

David Owen

#14. There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

Harriet Van Horne

#15. My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

Bruce Sterling

#16. So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

Sherwood Boehlert

#17. Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

William Shakespeare

#18. The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair ... It also sells best and looks good.

Raymond Loewy

#19. I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

Dane Cook

#20. Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

David Denby

#21. She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

Dave Barry

#22. After all, moms were appreciated only on Mother's Day. That's why they invented it. So they could treat you like a household appliance the rest of the year.

Leslie Meier

#23. Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures.

Mark S. Fowler

#24. He laughed. He had a similar appliance in his truck, a Lo-Jack, and where it was installed nobody knew. "I get it." "Good man. If you have any questions or concerns, you can call us, right?" "Right.

Diana Palmer

#25. Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall's discount- appliance emporium.

Colson Whitehead

#26. [The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

Trip Hawkins

#27. Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

Zhang Jindong

#28. Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

Andy Rooney

#29. Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.

Zhang Jindong

#30. Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?

Tom Bodett

#31. Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They're nothing like my house! Mine is deluxe! It's a big, thick, super sturdy refrigerator box that I found at an appliance store!

Wendelin Van Draanen

#32. Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

Dave Barry

#33. Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

J. K. Bharavi

#34. Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.

Dandi Daley Mackall

#35. Whether you're replacing one appliance that's seen better days, or many because you're moving or renovating, you probably know to look for the Energy Star label. That's good advice.

Jean Chatzky

#36. Then I tug the toaster from the wall and swing the appliance around my head like a lasso. I'm not aiming to knock her out. I'm aiming to knock off her fucking head.

J.A. Konrath

#37. The Bible does not say you are God's appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

John Ortberg

#38. The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively
because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

Frank Zappa

#39. Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Beverly Jones

#40. You never buy a woman an appliance or anything to use for keeping house.

Kathleen Brooks

#41. To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Grant Achatz

#42. We have been in contact with our customers, we've been actively talking to them. Our customers are important to us, so we decided to compensate appliance repairs.

Stephen Watson

#43. TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it's just a bigger screen.

Hari Sreenivasan

#44. The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.

Paul Reiser

#45. We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#46. Then his lips caress mine. It's only a brush, but the warmth overheats every part of me. Leaning back, my elbow bumps into the power button on the dryer and the old appliance starts moving. Spinning. Spinning like my head. Like my heart.

Lauren Hammond

#47. ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

Ambrose Bierce

#48. We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

Larry Ellison

#49. Some people save appliance boxes because they think they will get more money for the items if they ever sell them. But if you consider the rent you pay, turning your space into a storage shed for empty boxes, that probably costs you more than you would earn selling an appliance in a box.

Marie Kondo

#50. The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin.

Thomas M. Disch