Famous Quotes & Sayings

His smoke alarm went off and my dog started barking. I went out and ... there was smoke coming out.

Rex Stout

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

If you can't do it with the speed of a smoke alarm and a fire truck, you don't have a chance in hell of stopping this.

Markus Persson

I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

Bill Smith

I heard a loud sound. I sensed it might be a line because I knew the line was there. My television turned on, turned blue, and my alarm went off. So I was really busy answering the alarm so they wouldn't call the police. But when I came out here, I could see the wire was down.

P. J. O'Rourke

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

If job cuts in the auto industry continue and we start to see consistently high job-cut numbers from the top three job cutters in July, it should set off some relatively loud alarm bells about the state of the job market and economy.

George Washington

If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

I had the school to myself, and I was on a roll when the alarm went off. I saw water coming down one of the walls, and I ducked in (the area) and it was full of smoke and heat, so I got out of there in a hurry. The Fire Department was there a couple of minutes later.

Fred Taylor

I'm thinking to myself, if the alarm has not deterred this guy, something is going on, ... In my mind, I'm thinking he is going to do us some harm.

In many ways the alarm bells in the scientific community have been going off for quite some time. But they have never dramatically impacted the general public.

The issue here is not something that should cause anyone alarm or terrific concern.

The first thing that happened leading up to such a large spill was that at about 6 or 7 in the morning the telephone alarm system crashed and we don't know why. It's operated by the phone company and we are working with them to understand why that happened. The telephone alarm system monitors about 20-plus self-operating pump stations west of the Long Beach Freeway.

The captain didn't sound the usual alarm because he was worried that people would run up on the deck thinking it was a fire, and that would be the worst place to be,

The fire alarm system worked as it was designed to.

Nick Harkaway

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.

The key is to take a few minutes to check, test and clean your smoke alarm to make sure it is functioning properly. What better time to do this than when you change your clock for Daylight Savings Time?

These figures should relieve some of the fears of Fed officials who have been recently sounding the alarm on inflation prospects.

The alarm was faint, but we could still hear it.

The alarm system immediately goes to the police station. The chief has instructed police that if they get an alarm here, they're to come here first. If I set the alarm off, they'd be here in 30 seconds.

The alarm sounded simultaneously in the building and at the fire station, as well as at our security office. And I have to say, we're very proud of the way the students reacted. We do drills a lot, we do fire safety constantly and we're reinforcing that all the time. They did a really good job to get out of the building, to get themselves together and to look out for each other. All of the systems worked the way they should have and nobody was hurt.

The alarm is blaring, the police department and the fire department are in his bedroom, and he didn't even move. It's deafening.

Tom Bailey

The alarm has come through the school district. The school district volunteered to be the vehicle to bring entities together.

Bernie Bickerstaff

The alarm clock didn't go off until the second half. We didn't match their intensity on defense. We got hung up in fool's gold. Some shots were going in but we didn't stop anybody.

The alarm bells should be ringing in the palace. It could be the beginning of a more radical shift.

There was an oil flow alarm that went off.

Tristram Stuart

Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.

It should be an alarm for all of us to wake up and do more.

It's physically impossible to shoot them all. If one animal hears something, they sound the alarm and they all disappear.

Billy Beane

It's like having calculus first period. You are not real happy when the alarm goes off, but by second period it's already over and you are running off to wood shop.

It's spreading and that's why we're sounding the alarm now.

That has a shrilling alarm sound, so you know exactly what it is.

Kelly Miller

Taxes are increasing at an alarming rate for our citizens. You look at your surrounding jurisdictions and see what they're trying to do and have done for their people. We should do no less.