Detector Quotes

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. (Graham Greene)
A death-bed's a detector of the heart. View quote
Edward Young
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals. View quote
Frank Dobson
Found that in a universe that is expanding after a big bang event, neutrinos would turn up at a detector before they were emitted. Only future-going neutrinos were possible in the Steady state cosmology while the ever-expanding big bang models gave neutrinos travelling into Steady State theory to the past. View quote
Jayant Narlikar
If you see firm evidence of neutrinos arriving at the detector before they are sent, that can't happen in a Steady steady state cosmology, so the [[w:Big Bang|big bang has to be right. Or equivalently, no faster-than-light neutrinos, no big bang. View quote
Jayant Narlikar
I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off. View quote
Jesse Ventura
Unsurprisingly, the recipients of climate change subsidies and climate change research grants think action is very urgent indeed. As for the general public, of course saving the planet counts – until the bills come in and then the humbug detector is switched on. View quote
Tony Abbott
He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter). View quote
Hillary Clinton
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. View quote
John Perkins
It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical inner city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door. (Bran Ferren)
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat. View quote
John S. Pistole
Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. View quote
Michael Moore
I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America's Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn't changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing's changing, and it really never was gonna change. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
(Young girl rejecting Devil's attempt to purchase her soul) Bag your face.... You set off the smoke detector, ham breath. View quote
Nicole Hollander
In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high. View quote
Parker Palmer