Top 66 Tube Quotes

Like the ‘test tube babies’ born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.

Rihanna has this thick tone, so it’s very hard to annoy anybody. It’s like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don’t want that to change.

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.

You know, one year with ‘Glenn Campbell and his Good Time Hour’ and people know you too well. To me, when someone is on the tube every day then they become ordinary.

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.

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

What I find is that you don’t need to go for fancy mascara – I always get the L’Oreal ones from the drugstore. I get the gold tube, Voluminous Million Lashes in black.

I love tube socks!

My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart’s Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

My imagination works well because I didn’t have a boob tube for a baby-sitter.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James’s Park Tube station in London.

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there’s no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I’m not prepared to give that up.

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he’ll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

‘The Tube’ was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

I’m not very good at relaxing. Reading’s the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don’t think there’s a moment of the day when I wouldn’t be if I was left alone.

When I’m online, I’m alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

I’m the least vain person I know. I literally get out the shower, throw a brush through my hair, put jeans and a T-shirt on and head to the Tube and go to work most mornings. It takes seconds.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

In L.A. you can be quite isolated, but in London you can ride the Tube and are right in the thick of humanity and every type of person that you can imagine is passing by.

The average person has one Fallopian tube.

I didn’t know anything about the fashion industry until I met the stylist Simon Foxton on a Tube. I was 16, on my way to Kingsway College, and then my whole world opened up. Before that, like in every African family, you are meant to be a lawyer.

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.

In the test tube, I can make any DNA I want, recombining it from monkeys, worms, anywhere. So I can explore new rules of breeding with molecules.

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.

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.

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

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.

I really like Clinique’s Moisture Surge Hydrating stuff. It’s a super concentrated moisturizer. It’s pink and comes in a tube.

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

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.

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.

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.

I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

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.

I love the Duo strip-lash eyelash glue. For all my ladies who love a pair of falsies, if you’re using the glue in a tube, you’re so 2000.

I value my anonymity. I’m happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading ‘Fifty Shades.’

I have no brand loyalty to toothpaste. It’s absolutely a different brand every tube.

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her ‘test tube’ conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven’t radically altered our world.

When I’m in London I always travel by public transport – I catch the Tube and the Heathrow Express.

Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you’re busy you don’t see it coming until you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. It’s a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

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.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

My favorite lip balm is, weirdly enough, just a little tube of Aquaphor. It’s clear, and it will keep my lips glossy and perfect for hours.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They’re all looking down at their screen.

I just think it’s useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you’re just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.

I’m usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.

Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife’s side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.

One of my theme songs is that if you can’t do it in a test tube, don’t do it.

Making a paper straw requires growing a tree, cutting it down, and pulping and pressing it into a tube. Manufacturers then use fossil fuels to ship the straws to stores and cafes. Many paper straws on the market are not even compostable or recyclable, as promised.

My mother never met a gadget she didn’t like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.

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.

It’s not legally possible to put an image of a member of the royal family on the Tube!

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.

Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.