“ Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
- 3.8K
“ When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 3K
“ If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next. ”
- James Lee Burke- Copy
- 251
“ Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. ”
- Patricia Cornwell- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. ”
- John Gregory Dunne- Copy
- 3.5K
“ And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are — Women and Horses and Power and War. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; No keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in life. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 701
“ The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'. ”
- George Clooney- Copy
- 231
“ Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 753
“ Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? ”
- Arlo Guthrie- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.4K
“ My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 1.1K
“ No matter how carefully you plan your goals, they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
- 3K
“ It is not that the Englishman can't feel — it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks — his pipe might fall out if he did. ”
- E.M. Forster- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before. ”
- Steve Ballmer- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I saw, for the first time in my life, two or three young white women smoking tobacco in clay pipes. From their manner it was evidently a well-formed habit, and one which they did not suspect there was occasion for them to practice clandestinely, or be ashamed of. ”
- Frederick Law Olmsted- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other… ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear.... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. ”
- Marilyn Ferguson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lack counseling, jobs, and respect. A lot of that has got to be self-administered in affinity groups, counseling groups, in jail and out of jail, with resources and professional help. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
- 547
“ Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me! ”
- Natasha Henstridge- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy…neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 648
“ Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouse holes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
- 2.3K
“ How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 3.2K
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