Toilets Quotes - Page 10

• I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming so I stuck it under the toilet and went running out. And I went back later to check for it. And it was gone.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Running, Eight

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for occasionally 'babysitting' their own children and women are castigated for daring to combine motherhood and career; while baby changing facilities are provided in women's toilets but rarely in the men's, is it any wonder we tend to take on the roles society stereotypically pushes on us when it comes to caregiving?

  Laura Bates

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my toilet than I do from meeting a movie star. I think my movies are in the same vein as that.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Stars, Real, Character

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Patience, Time, Children

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• With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."

  Drew Magary

  Book, People, Attention

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary.

  Li Cunxin

  Book, Reading, Vocabulary

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

  Henry Adams

  Order, Clothes, Ego

  Henry Adams (1999). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1920, OUP Oxford

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• If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

  Paul Merton

  House, Done, Paper

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• I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Mother, Generations, Alive

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• These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Perfect, People, Unions

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, School

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• It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

  William P. Young

  Long Ago, Long, Cleaning

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• Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don't know what comes next in the story... clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Thoughtful, Dust

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• Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

  Anne Roiphe

  Son, Boys, Law

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• F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.

  Angela Carter

  Reading, Offending, Dubious

  Angela Carter (2012). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, p.22, Random House

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• NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle toilet and they put a camera down in the bottom of the opening for solid-waste collection, with a light that basically illuminates your asshole.

  Mike Mullane

  Philosophy, Light, Training

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Dying, Sitting

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• All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

  Leila Aboulela

  Men, Clothes, Gender Equality

  Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

  James G. March

  Jobs, Believe, Organization

  James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

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• There comes a time in every man's life when he wakes up drunk on the toilet and begins to doubt the choices he has made. and when that time comes at least twice a day, every day. something needs to be done.

  Paul Neilan

  Men, Drunk, Choices

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• Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Kids, Feet

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• And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

  Mark Levin

  People, Return, Vote

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

  Dan Brown

  Thrones, Realization, Unexpected

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?" "A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet." "And that will work?" "Only if he needs to pee.

  Anne Bishop

  Boys, Snow, Needs

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• There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Special, Losing, Virginity

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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