Colin McEnroe Quotes

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A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.
— Colin McEnroe

technology

When microwave ovens didn't exist . . . did people sit around [in an emotional vacuum] saying, "Heat is so boring. I wish I could bombard a potato with mutant intergalactic energy?"
— Colin McEnroe

cooking

A man's home is his disneyland, in the sense that there is a good deal going on behind the scenes, by way of maintenance, that he cannot even guess at as he drifts through the main attraction.
— Colin McEnroe

home

When Consumer Reports begins to describe the potential for dire calamity that lies behind most everyday activities, my hands tremble, my vision blurs, and I have to go lie quietly for a while.
— Colin McEnroe

technology

If The Scarlet Letter took place in modern times, Hester and the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale would appear on talk show after talk show until they had whetted themselves into a kind of telegenic sharpness.
— Colin McEnroe

television

Many purchasers of self-help books are grappling with a creeping, leaden feeling that life is passing them by. . . . Why, these purchasers ask, am I not a glittering presence? Why do I not have an ostentatiously large and tastelessly furnished house full of sullen hangers-on?
— Colin McEnroe

self-esteem