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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. -- Germaine Greer
I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was. -- Margot Robbie
Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving. -- Deborah Moggach
I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget. -- Paul Weller
In London, I take the Tube everywhere. -- Elizabeth McGovern
Sure, I've been on the Tube...I caught it to Eastbourne once. -- Serena Williams
The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas. -- Phil Donahue
I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change. -- Lisa S.
I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food. -- Will Ferrell
I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube. -- Arthur Smith
The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum. -- Jools Holland
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum. -- Jools Holland
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. -- John le Carre
I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.' -- Robert Webb
Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card. -- Agyness Deyn
You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people? -- Andrea Corr
I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews. -- Bruce Forsyth
I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that. -- Ian Mckellen
There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online. -- Louis C. K.
Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance. -- MyAnna Buring
For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players. -- Jermain Defoe
I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars. -- Eddie Redmayne
I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact. -- Peter Piot
In the Tunnel of Desire, past the Tube of Destiny, lies the Turtle of Doubt. We all have to face that turtle, but only the confident ones ever find out that doubt tastes like chicken. -- Jarod Kintz
I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.' -- Ian Mckellen
I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car. -- Andy Murray
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I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone. -- Jim Broadbent
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said. -- Maureen Johnson
I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur. -- Graham Swift
I love tube socks! -- Miley Cyrus
The average person has one Fallopian tube. -- Bo Burnham
I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff. -- Sandra Bullock
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. -- William Arthur Ward
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. -- Edward Abbey
I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up. -- Sam Brownback
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. -- Norman Mailer
I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life. -- Jack Kevorkian
I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover Girl lash blast, in the orange tube. -- Nina Dobrev
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. -- Ivan Pavlov
Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it. -- Virginia Postrel
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. -- Christopher Hitchens
I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow. -- Sheri L. Dew
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube. -- Joan Rivers
I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar... I'd pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I'd go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did. -- Tim Allen
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions. -- Alison Gopnik
I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened. -- Eric Davis
I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D. -- Michel Gondry
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned. -- John Ridley
In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing. -- Alessandra Ambrosio
When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted. -- Alan King
Nature abhors the vacuum tube. -- John R. Pierce
The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas, -- Nam June Paik
No one wants to see a boring tube sock. -- Rob Kardashian
You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube. -- H. R. Haldeman
Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster. -- James Patterson
Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube. -- W. Edwards Deming
I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers. -- John Dyer
The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science. -- John B. Watson
There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it. -- Bill Bryson
The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas. -- Emily Dickinson
I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats. -- Neil Patrick Harris
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. -- Frederick Marryat
What goes up must come down, which is why I don't wear tube tops. -- Ellen DeGeneres
My love is tube shaped. Don't let your dad stick his dick in it. -- Jarod Kintz
If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won't accept it. -- Seth Rogen
I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card. -- Jason Flemyng
A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue. -- Joni Mitchell
Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube. -- Joan Rivers
To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube. -- Dennis Miller
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue. -- Al Yankovic
For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. -- Clifford Stoll
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube. -- Henry David Thoreau
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in. -- H. R. Haldeman
Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back. -- Earl Wilson
Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube. -- Dave Barry
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege -- Noam Chomsky
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube -- Bill Sienkiewicz
There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it. -- Arnold Friberg
One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it. -- Martin Fleischmann
He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque. -- Gene Mauch
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind. -- Ruth Buzzi
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube. -- Ed Rollins
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts. -- Virginia Postrel
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth. -- Jaron Lanier
I have moments, like a guy saying to me on the tube, "You know, you look a lot like Jessie Ware." -- Jessie Ware
I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child. -- Shirley Williams
You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine. -- Justin Halpern
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.' -- E. L. James
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. -- Mantak Chia
Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you. -- Kobe Bryant
When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act. -- Ellen Goodman
Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. -- John Green
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence. -- James Frey
I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride. -- Josh Turner
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.... -- Hunter S. Thompson
Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can. -- Rob Thurman
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). -- Terry Pratchett
The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the moment. -- Bonnie Bassler
Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please? -- James Patterson
The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one. -- Jeff Smith
My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas. -- Jamie McGuire
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment. -- Joan Ganz Cooney
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States. -- John Ratzenberger
The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him. -- John Green
Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back -- LeBron James
The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings. -- Seth Shostak
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!" -- Khalil Gibran
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 -- Gregg Easterbrook
I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate. -- Jo Brand
Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I'm not very good at maths. -- Michelle Paver

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