Pipe Quotes - Page 6

• Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

  Kofi Annan

  Dream, Relief, Debt

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• The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Deceit, Our Actions

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.62

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• Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Children, Example

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Fall, Light, Drifting Off

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• I'd love to watch Jack Youngblood play. His tan arms hanging out of his sleeveless jersey, he'd put those pipes on the ground, and even at 240 pounds, he would show great moves and natural strength for an undersized player. He was extremely quick, had underrated strength, and he got great leverage against the tackles.

  Jack Youngblood

  Moving, Player, Jersey

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• "One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"

  Iain Banks

  Jobs, Children, Law

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

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• A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

  Harris L Coulter

  Drinking, Aqueducts, Autism

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• I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

  Roseanne Barr

  Children, Thinking, Keys

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Hands, Rose

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Awful, Size, Cleaning

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• I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.

  Francis Jammes

  Smoking, Littles, Brown

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• Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

  Lewis Mumford

  Dirty, Heart, Science

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

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• Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
  And straight reality is always cold

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Reality, Hands

  Song: Keep It Simple, Album: Keep It Simple, 2008

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• The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

  John Vianney

  Men, Catholic, Purity And Love

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• I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Great Love, Bed

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

  Ella Maillart

  Sunshine, Ice, Gliding

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• Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.196, Zola Books

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• Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Women, Water, Religion

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• I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

  David Lynch

  Men, People, Waste

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• Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.

  Neil Bonnett

  Racing, Dangerous, Situation

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• When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

  Dale Chihuly

  Life, Positive, Night

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• [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Lying, Artist

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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• Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.

  William Allingham

  Song, Morning, Waiting

  William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”

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• The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go.

  Opal Whiteley

  Dream, Song, Wind

  Opal Whiteley “The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, Lulu.com

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• My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

  Saul

  Real, Names, Tribes

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