Pneumatic Quotes

#1. Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

W. Edwards Deming

#2. True, Clara's eyebrows didn't meet. But she was really too pneumatic. Whereas Fifi and Joanna were absolutely right. Plump, blonde, not too large ... And it was that great lout, Tom Kawaguchi, who now took the seat between them.

Aldous Huxley

#3. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating.

George Orwell

#4. The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway ... One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Lance Morrow

#5. Uncorsetted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

T. S. Eliot

#6. He proposed a steam-powered pneumatic tube system to carry telegraph forms the short distance from the Stock Exchange to the main telegraph office.

Tom Standage

#7. Spoiled [10w]
When a woman gets used to an industrial quality pneumatic drill,
I seriously doubt if she'll use a vibrator again.

Beryl Dov

#8. Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. Her head felt like miniature construction workers had taken up residence. Along with jackhammers and pneumatic drills, they were now whistling at passing women and yelling "Hey, baby!" She made the pledge of hung-over idiots everywhere: I'm never drinking again.

Kate Meader

#10. A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.

Thomas Pynchon

#11. I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

Gail Collins

#12. I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

Aeriel Miranda

#13. Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do.

Glenn Greenwald

#15. Go for someone who is proud to have you.

Frank Ocean

#16. Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Joan D. Chittister

#17. But since the Obsidian Order - perennial of cheap dramas and bogeymen of children's stories - had

Django Wexler

#18. If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

Peter Lynch

#19. I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

Melissa Etheridge

#20. By nature we do not like the anxiety which spiritual concern causes us, and we try, like sluggards, to sleep again.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. The bell seemed to have set off an
alarm in my brain, and I glimpsed at the mysterious envelope on my desk.

There was another item I should've gotten from my single-shoe salesman.

A.E.H. Veenman

#22. I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remember going out to dinner with my mom afterward and reading the souvenir program like crazy!

Erich Bergen

#23. But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

#24. people who use multiple devices simultaneously have lower gray-matter density in an area of the brain associated with cognitive and emotional control. With

Gary Hennerberg

#25. I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto