Switch Quotes

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• He had a personality switch. He went from being nice to being hot.

  

  Brad Stewart Shinedown
  • Personality
  • Being
  • Switch

• We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Telephone
  • Computing
  • Tap

• I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it clicks on, I'm somebody else.

  

  Richard Seymour
  • Somebody
  • Switch
  • Richard

• I think over time the fiscal environment on cigarettes will become different, and the regulatory environment has to differentiate the products. If that is at the expense of cigarettes, so be it - it's not a problem for me. But we need some logical forum where we don't talk ideology but rather we talk about what can really accelerate the conversion. If you do display bans everywhere in the world on cigarettes but you can display IQOS, that's a differentiating measure for me. Then I'm more than willing to accept these measures because they are really conducive to make people switch.

  

  Andre Calantzopoulos
  • People
  • Measures
  • Cigarettes

• There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

  

  Anthony Anderson
  • Actor
  • I Do
  • Switch

• All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Attitude
  • Understand
  • Collaborators

• It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Green
  • Living
  • Tone

• I get dissatisfied really easily, and I have to constantly keep moving; I have to constantly keep doing things. I find it very hard to switch off.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Moving
  • Dissatisfied
  • Switch

• What you see out on the pitch is what I am. It's not put on at all. I'm a passionate person. It's like I flick a switch. People say it must be hard to live with me, but I find it easy to turn it on and off.

  

  Andre Nel
  • Person
  • Passionate
  • Switch

• I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Actor
  • More
  • To Do

• There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

  

  Bill Frakes
  • Stories
  • I Love
  • Switch

• People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

  

  Ray Romano
  • People
  • Think
  • Transition

• There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.

  

  Alissa York
  • Feel
  • Survival
  • Switch

• For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.

  

  Stewart Butterfield
  • Person
  • Product
  • Switch

• When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for instance, it's sometimes hard to switch back to very simple talking, like I am forced to do in Finnish. So a real conversation, when I really wanna tell something, I can't do it in Finnish.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • English
  • Language
  • Conversation

• Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heaven
  • Creation
  • Hell

• I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Light
  • Language