#tubes

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere. ↗

— Steve Cropper

#ears #even #fool #i #i do

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#best #circuit #designed #good #i

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years. ↗

— Eric Davis

#ball #children #circulating #despite #god

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#attack #attic #bits #construction #development

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i #know #onstage #tubes #weird

If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#auto #auto industry #candidates #cars #down

Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work. ↗

— Robert Moog

#back #build #building #buy #could

I make believe like asexuals make love—alone, with cardboard tubes.
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— Jarod Kintz

#asexual #cardboard-tubes #imagination #love #make-believe

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#america #country #dictator #down #during