Quotes About Detector

#1. Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Graham Greene

#2. Bryson says that "we tend to regard other people's languages as we regard their cultures - with ill-hidden disdain." Too true. Unfortunately, Bryson proves himself right with a series of stories that should have set off his own too-bizarre-to-be-true detector.

Robert Lane Greene

#3. If you have something to hide, I'm your worst nightmare. I'm a living, breathing, and walking lie detector. I can smell you down to the type of soap you use, your morning ritual, and the last time you took a hand and stroked your favorite body part. Everything leaves behind a scent ... Everything.

Ashley Jeffery

#4. Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

Marissa Meyer

#5. Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

Arthur Koestler

#6. It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

Bran Ferren

#7. Well," Carole said, turning in her seat, "after being fingerprinted and being given a lie detector test, I'll never complain again about going to the gynecologist.

Stephanie Bond

#8. I am standing still," Kelly said. "What, does that thing not work when I'm talking? It gets distracted? It's a metal detector with ADD?

Abigail Roux

#9. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#10. Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.

Jan Hunt

#11. Laura, apparently, is a human bullshit detector.

Jasmine Warga

#12. Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

Michael Moore

#13. What's the detector?" Thomas asked. "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly. Thomas wrinkled his face at her.

James Dashner

#14. Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

Peter Diamandis

#15. I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

Dan Greenburg

#16. Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.

Isabel Allende

#18. A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

Edward Young

#19. Lie Detector Says

Gillibran Brown

#20. On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.

Ronald Kessler

#21. There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector.

Richard Corliss

#22. My iPod rumbles again. It's not actually an iPod. It doesn't play any music and the earbuds are just for show. It's a gadget that Sandor put together in his lab.
It's my Mogadorian detector. I call it my iMog.

Pittacus Lore

#23. I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.

Jesse Ventura

#24. To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.

Ronald Kessler

#25. Sarcasm is a great stupidity detector.

Sabrina Zbasnik

#26. In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Ernest Hemingway,

#27. Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

Caroline Kepnes

#28. In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Hugh Sidey

#29. Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

Bill Maher

#30. My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.

Brian Herbert

#31. The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

Jim Trelease

#32. Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

Richard Cecil

#33. Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Pauline Kael

#34. I want to live in an honest house
where the motion detector is so sharp
it knows when my thoughts leave the room.

I want a clap on lamp that works as a polygraph;
when you swear you still love me, the lights flicker.

Megan Falley

#35. Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

John Fante

#36. I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Paula Jones

#37. I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America's Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn't changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing's changing, and it really never was gonna change.

Rush Limbaugh

#38. Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

William Faulkner

#39. I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.

Paul Theroux

#40. When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

John Perkins

#41. Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as the Childersins' novelty pet, or as a Perfume-detector. Nobody would guess that she was there to look for the person who had stolen her history.

Frances Hardinge

#42. My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

Frank Dobson

#43. I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't.

Steven Wright

#44. If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

William H. Ginsburg

#45. The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Ernest Hemingway,

#46. Here's how I see your weight - it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.

Oprah Winfrey

#47. He believes the world populated by obvious monsters. The most dangerous of us are the least obvious. He relies on his skill as a lie detector, reading and judging the conflicting emotions of others.

Karen Marie Moning

#48. Murderers with severe personality disorders, police had learned, sometimes could fool a lie detector because they lacked shame and guilt, and didn't feel the normal stress when lying.

Michael Benson

#49. And I met Madeline's necromancer. His name's Luca."
"A death detector?" Tod made a face. "That's creepy."
"It gets weirder. He's dating Sophie."
"On purpose?

Rachel Vincent

#50. Would you be willing to take a lie detector test?"
"I'm afraid not," he said. "It goes against my religion."
His brow furrowed. "How?"
"Only God can judge me ...

J.M. Darhower

#51. The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.

Embee

#52. Goose bumps are the tangible evidence of vibrational presence. If you have goose bumps, you know that it must be true. Goose bumps are like Truth Detector Machines.

Kate McGahan