Plumber Quotes - Page 4

• Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Psychics, Creative Space

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Witty, Jobs

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

  Dorothy Parker

  Kissing, Favors, Bass

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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• You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Airplane, School, Careers

  "Have Your Loved Ones Spayed and Neutered". Album by Jeff Foxworthy, 2004.

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• Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

  Dave Barry

  Time, Dollars, Substance

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.94, Ballantine Books

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• I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Yelling, Balance

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• The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

  Umberto Eco

  Doctors, Phones, Tools

  "Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism". Book by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. 2007.

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• It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

  Daniel Handler

  Hemlock, Pieces, Equipment

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• Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

  Mark Twain

  God, Fashion, Leaving

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. But we walk a narrow path with pitfalls on either side. If we spend all our time developing equipment, we risk the appellation of "plumber," and if we merely use the tools developed by others, we risk the censure of our peers for being parasitic.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Dream, Hero, Science

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• Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Space, Stories

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

  Edith Green

  Kings, Women, Memorable

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• All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

  Philip Pullman

  Block, Writing, Doctors

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

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• Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Teacher, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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• You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

  Gilda Radner

  Writing, Trying, Hollywood

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Islands

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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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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• For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.

  Natalie Dormer

  Men, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Pot

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• 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.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Air, Beverly Hills, Actors

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• There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

  Jo Brand

  Feminist, Groups, Different

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• If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

  Jay Maisel

  Demand, Might, Clients

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• I like doing everything - theater and film, radio and TV, comedy and tragedy. I love it all. And I've never really planned anything - I've always looked at my job in a rather simplistic way. It's like being a plumber. One day you might be fixing an early 20th century showerhead that requires real detailed work. The other day you might just be clearing a sewer. Both jobs are very different, but all the tools come out of the same box. That's the way I look at acting.

  Alfred Molina

  Real, One Day, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.

  Andy Kindler

  Drinking, Rights, People

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• My dad is really old school: "Whatever you do, just be the best at it." He didn't really care if I was a plumber or a roofer. It didn't matter what I did. He said, "Go out and find out what you like to do, and be the best at it."

  Scott Eastwood

  Dad, School, Care

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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