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  • Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America! -- Stephen Sondheim
  • Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man. -- Aziz Ansari
  • Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter. -- Max Lucado
  • I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones. -- Jason Mraz
  • I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back -- Al Jourgensen
  • I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into my nuts? -- Bob Saget
  • One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ... -- Mona Van Duyn
  • Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir -- Khaled Hosseini
  • Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. -- Steve Albini
  • I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ... -- Nellie L. McClung
  • So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up, running forward into its widespread greeting arms with your hands before you, fingertips trembling though they may be. -- Anis Mojgani
  • I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind. -- Rumi
  • In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. -- Mark Twain
  • Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt. -- Charles Bukowski
  • What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship! -- Mervyn Peake
  • You push a button and it goes all over the world and on Sunday people are saying, 'Oh, I binge watched all 10 of them. Where's more?' and you go oh, the world has changed. It's not my dad walking to the television set and turning a knob to Ed Sullivan. -- Jeffrey Tambor
  • My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky. -- Sam Abell
  • Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed. -- Erma Bombeck
  • I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees. -- Felipe Esparza
  • If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there. -- Madeleine Albright
  • Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs. -- Zeena Parkins
  • I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically. -- Adam Beyer
  • It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt. -- Melissa de la Cruz
  • The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. -- Edward Abbey
  • I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars. -- Bre Pettis
  • An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring. -- Shane Black
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