Dial Quotations

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.

When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.

My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. He designed a Nye family dial that kept time at our house in Washington, DC.

I'd like to be able to dial it up when we needed it. Unfortunately, sometimes you keep waiting and waiting and it never happens. My hope is that some time in the next 24 hours we play as close to our ability as we can. Right now, I think we need to play one of the best games that we've played. I don't know where we are in terms of that, but I'd like to see us come close to that (tonight).

Most people have been using a radio dial to scan frequencies to find the right music, we've made it possible to do the same in the optical realm.

He was holding my hand and he goes...what do you want me to do? And I told him to dial 9-11.

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

I said, 'Just let me throw a load into the washing machine. As I turned the dial on the machine, the house was struck by lightning.

I thought he was pretty good. Coming out of spring training, he turned the dial up with his intensity, with his stuff. He made a couple of bad pitches, obviously, but I thought he could have been out of that fifth inning and it's 2-0 ... a couple of balls hit hard and that's about it.

I think a lot of times when people drunk dial about relationships, they're in a really strange place and they don't know what they want. But when they get that alcohol in them it makes everything a bit clearer, and you just do what you need to do.

I think we need to dial down our expectations of the history-telling functions of these trials.

You can get a hometown phone number so your relatives can dial a local number, and it's routed to your phone.

We can't dial the cost here, in this case. So we've had to focus on affordability.

We wanted to move to a place where our cable company is separately structured, so we'd have cable-based currency to take advantage of further consolidation in the cable space, ... And we wanted to be able to dial up or down our ownership of cable, based on our view of the industry and of the needs of the company at a given point in time.

There are those that are saying you have to be able to dial back to any arbitrary point in time. From our discussions with the mid-market, that's not exactly something they are looking for.

We are on the cusp of change, ... Looking back over the last year, Americans have had a taste of higher oil prices that have only gone up, and now they are starting to dial in lifestyle changes.

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

Dial and Patterson both hit well. Riddle drove in runs. We kept fighting and battling. Before the year is over, I still think we are going to have a decent club. I am seeing some bright spots and seeing things we are doing better even though we didn't win.

Someone's going to have to dial the numbers for me. I don't know if I'm ever going to stop shaking.

Spencer is our most improved player. He just turned up the dial this year. He got more confident in his ball handling ability. He got more confident in his shooting ability. He's a smart kid. He works hard. He's one of those kids that always asks how he can improve certain aspects of his game and then he's out there working on it.

SBC is resetting the dial and is probably going back to flat sales growth, ... Why should I invest in something that's not that exciting of a story?

SBC is resetting the dial and is probably going back to flat sales growth. Why should I invest in something that's not that exciting of a story?

Right now the money goes to the state police. I get it from them when I go online and not before, even though if (people) dial 911 on a cell phone, I get the call.

There's nobody else I want out there. I just know that when the pressure's on ... he's going to dial it up a notch, and that's the best chance we've got to win, with him out there in that situation.

There are always different ways of getting their attention as we get going here. I think they understand how they have to conduct themselves. It's making sure that they really dial in.

I'm not sure you can have an event like that anymore. When we made the film, as you can see, we had dial phones, there was no Internet, there was no cable, there was no computerization of our culture, and so one event like this -- one scandal -- could command that kind of attention.

If you're an MCI customer, you really don't need to do anything. In the incredible event that something happens to your service, you can always dial around.

Oh no, this was before that, I was already in my 20s by the time the 6502 came out. This was all transistor flip-flops. It was a gated adder with a rotary telephone dial as the primary input device.

I've kind of been hit or miss the past couple of weeks. I've done some really good stuff, then made a bad swing when I shouldn't. However, this golf course will do that to you. Sometimes you can't just dial it in to the perfect yardage to some of these pins. I just need to be out there making good swings and taking the results it gives me.

The biggest reason ISPs are not quickly upgrading their dial networks is that they want to save money,

The new Ask.com is like having a speed dial to the best search has to offer. With the new site, we've continued our singular focus of innovating at the core of search - where it matters most to people. We've put unique search tools in the right place, at the right time, freeing people from wading through endless links so they can get to the good stuff faster.

It's been pretty quiet all week, volumes have come down...You have pretty significantly reduced volume here in August, ... This morning there was nothing to really move the dial on PPI or jobless claims.

I know from doing it myself once or twice, that I'm looking at the phone to dial the number and then I look up and I'm in another lane.

I just need something that has a dial tone and works Used works great for me.

These plans can be a hassle to use. You have to dial seven digits before the number you wish to call for a total of 18 numbers.

The business model isn't video on demand. It's getting a dial tone in places where there are only two phones per 100 people.

You won't have to dial up and the bandwidth will be higher,

The first thing I did when I came down here was dial numbers for American Legion posts, ... A few of us made phone calls to national and wanted to know why there was no post in this area and found out others had asked as well.

The communities of Phelan and Wrightwood are isolated. They have a dial tone and telephone service locally. It is telephone service out to the world and to 911 that they do not have.

We control all access points to the network. That means secure authentication to dial in to the network and firewalls around all the Internet servers.

It is unknown how many of these calls contain actual conversations versus simple dial tones, or 'dead air,' until each call is listened to, ... Therefore, without listening to these calls, I am unable to determine the nature of these 176 audio-buffered calls.

It's actually very similar. It's a big station (KMOX). It's at 1120 on the dial and it hits 44 states.

It was seriously hot out there today and pretty exhausting! Today we concentrated on fixing the little bit of chatter we've had and played around with some front fork settings, just trying to dial it in. We made some good progress and we have a new front-end setting to try in the morning; we hope that this will be the final key. Honestly we didn't really concentrate much on lap times but it seems that they came anyway, so I'm pretty happy!

We have 23,000 managers out doing directory assistance, maintenance, installing new lines. We are focused on making sure everyone has a dial tone.

This is the new dial tone. The basic customer-service model today is broken; for most customers, it's not a satisfying experience. This is a new way for businesses to reach out to their customers.

He's made a tremendous amount of difference in a bad way. He truly wants to dial the clock back to the 1920s, before we saw the modern federal state evolve.

For the administrators who dial in from California, yeah, I'm concerned, but in many cases I didn't have much choice. I'll take what I can get, but we have backups on-site, and they can be talked through dealing with those systems. We're filling in creatively where we can.

An analogy would be when you're scanning the radio dial and you get the same station separated by a small blank space. The size of the blank space is directly proportional to the strength of the magnetic field at the location in space where the station is being broadcast.

Nods from the Gilded pointers --/ Nods from the Seconds slim --/ Decades of Arrogance between/ The Dial life --/ And Him --

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.

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.