Plumber Quotes - Page 3

• Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Trying, Playing Music

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

  Will Self

  Willpower, Remuneration, Periods

  "Willpower by Roy F Baumeister and John Tierney - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2012.

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• They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there isn't any supporter backup. If you make a mistake as a plumber, you know, you fix it and everything goes on or you get sued. But if you make a mistake as a cop, you are more infamous than Jesse James, everything's over.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Jobs, Mistake, Goes On

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

  Sinclair Lewis

  School, Army, Boys

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Dirty, Hands, Mind

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

  Rob Kall

  Hope, Differences, Choices

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• I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Weekend, Trying

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• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Teacher, Beach, Men

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

  Marguerite Duras

  Men, Differences, Waiting

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• By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

  Jacques Barzun

  Artist, People, World

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• One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Hands, Law, Want

  The Question of Max ch. 5 (1976).

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• If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

  Charles Barkley

  Guy, Looks, Jordan

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• There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Giving, Bliss, Pleasure

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• I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That’s how it works. You don’t buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor’s music?

  Hugh Jackman

  Art, Careers, Broken

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• I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is.  I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it

  Bruce Bruce

  Believe, Mean, Average

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• Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

  Charles Bukowski

  Doctors, Mad, Lawyer

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• Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Advice, Firsts, Refrigerators

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• The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Soccer, Teacher, Art

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• What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

  Samuel West

  Parent, Actors, Wanted

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.

  Loral Langemeier

  Nice, Men, Fishing

  Loral Langemeier (2013). “The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating Cash with Wealth Cycle Investing”, p.228, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the afternoon. I didn't want to write a book unless I had something new to say - and it was good to live a little in between.

  Lucy Hughes-Hallett

  Morning, Book, Writing

  "Lucy Hughes-Hallett: 'I'd take tea with Hitler'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2013.

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• Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.

  Percival Everett

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Men, Doctors

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• Confused, I asked, "The coven's what?" "Plumber," Ivy said, looking pale as she leaned on Glenn. "You know. Stops leaks?" Oh goodie. I'm a leak.

  Kim Harrison

  Confused, Ivy, Leaks

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