Plumber Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Phil Robertson

  Real, Men, Dynasty

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• The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Calling, Poor

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• I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

  Mike Rowe

  Hero, Blue, House

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• There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fun, Real, Wife

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Running, Art, Writing

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• When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Guy, Actors

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Dad, Home, My Best Friend

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• The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind.

  David Ogilvy

  Leaving, Tools, Schedules

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.28, Profile Books

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• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

  Mike Rowe

  Mother, Dad, Broken

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that's is what artistry is about, whether you are a plumber, a pinter, a musician whatever it is that is unique about you that is translated into your art.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Art, Unique, Special

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• If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, If I Could

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• I'm not sure cavemen had plumbers. They probably just used a hole.

  Joelle Carter

  Cavemen, Used, Holes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's in our nature. If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that. So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually makes sense.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Together, Tangible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team of senior advisers. All of their positions will now be held by a man named 'Joe the Plumber.'

  John McCain

  Senior, Morning, Team

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. Oktober 16, 2008.

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• While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Doctors, Judging

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Honest, Lawyer

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!

  Stephen Colbert

  Hate, Italian, Doe

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• As time goes on, the more I value doctors and plumbers. Doctors a little more. I can fix my own toilet but I still can't operate on myself.

  Bob Saget

  Doctors, Littles, Goes On

  Twitter post from Dec 09, 2011

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• Every time I get happy
  the Nana-hex comes through.
  Birds turn into plumber's tools,
  a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
  a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
  a boat turns into a corpse.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Depression, Dirty

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• I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

  Colin Angle

  Mother, Book, Age

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• 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.

  James McBride

  Sports, Children, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.

  Ted Nugent

  Teacher, Heart, Soul

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I would like to mention that a couple days ago Senator Obama was out in Ohio and he had an encounter with a guy who's a plumber, his name is Joe Wurzelbacher.

  John McCain

  Couple, Ohio, Names

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

  Dean Koontz

  Answers, Weapons, Murder

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.619, Bantam

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• When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

  Nick Offerman

  Play, Agents, Firsts

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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