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  • My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.

  • Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.

    Husband   Home   Wife  
  • The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

    Art   America   Bridges  
    Beatrice Wood (1989). “Intimate Appeal: The Figurative Art of Beatrice Wood : The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 18 November 1989-18 February 1990, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, 19 June 1990-28 October 1990”
  • I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things.

  • Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

    Sex   Exercise   Yeast  
  • I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

    Jobs   Wall   Odd  
  • I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

    Blow   Glasses   Taught  
  • It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.

  • A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

    Real   Men   Dynasty  
  • My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

    Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

    Stan Kelly-Bootle (1995). “The Computer Contradictionary”, p.44, MIT Press
  • I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

  • They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

    People   Judging   Fields  
    David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
  • All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

  • We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle.

    Evil   May   Facts  
  • I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

    Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.405, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

  • If you think about the energy that a rocket engine has to put out and all the fuel and you're sitting on top of like a bomb. And on the Space Shuttle, that big orange tank is filled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the white cell rocket boosters on the sides are filled with solid propellant. There's a lot of energy in all those chemicals there and you've got to control it in a way so it doesn't explode. So, there's a lot of plumbing, a lot of valving, a lot of control systems, and it's a very complicated thing. So, how do you bring the price of that down?

    Source: bigthink.com
  • The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody else. Don't stand around with a bunch of writers and talk about writing. You know when you see plumbers at a plumbers convention, usually they're not talking about plumbing: they're talking about whatever it is that two men happen to talk about. They're talking about sports, their wives and children. I just tell my students, don't talk about writing too much, just go out and do it. Find out whatever you need to get to the mainland.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.

  • As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.

    Fall   Islands   People  
  • Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

    God   Two   Soul  
    "Why people believe weird things". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.
  • Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to the hole in the door. "No. No, I'm okay. What a about you? Are you hurt?" "Only if you count the fact that you damned near ripped off my plumbing groping around for my phone." She made a sound of exasperation. "Now? You pick now to become a comedian?" "It's all about timing," he whispered back.

    Hurt   Phones   Doors  
  • My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

    Apology   Voice   Singing  
  • ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ

  • The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

    Easier   Drains   Scotty  
    "Fictional character: Montgomery Scott". "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", 1984.
  • Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

    Real   Magic   Unseen  
    Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins
  • The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

  • It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.

    Eye   Science   Thinking  
    Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser
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