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The Dial

«A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.»
«2-1-2. It's prestige. It's the Big Apple. And you hardly have to move your finger to dial it.»
«At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said Certainly. He said Do I need to dial 9? I say Yeah. Especially if it's in the number. You can try four and five back to back real quick.»
«And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; / Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ahaz, degrees, The Dial
«In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder': As you have seen on the screen; the best way to do it is with a scissor.»
«And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ahaz, The Dial
«In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.»
«Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Loyalty | Keywords: dial, dials, shined, The Dial
«And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.»
«If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded.»