Toilets Quotes - Page 16

• Oh, its big enough,” he said patronizingly, “but somehow I was expecting…you know.” He gestured with his hands, indicating something roughly the size of a house cat. “It’s the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl,” said Isabelle. -Jace & Isabelle, pg.349-

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Hands, House

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Bones”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.

  Mike Mullane

  Wall, Space, Vacuums

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Thinking, Air

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

  David Reuben

  Smell, Succeed, Westerners

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• When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, People, Black

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

  Alex Borstein

  Powerful, Ocean, Sea

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• I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Hurt, June, Arms

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

  Ben Hecht

  Writing, Views, Castles

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• Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another, "Molly, my dear, I would have bought that new brand of toilet soap if only they hadn't set the body copy in ten point Garamond." Don't you believe it. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Once Upon A Time, Riding

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• You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two men in a toilet on an airplane which was very exciting.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Airplane, Fighting, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'

  Ethel Merman

  Two, Rooms, Next

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• Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge...; and her most inexpressible joy.

  James Dobson

  Mother, Dog, Play

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• Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.'

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Drinking, Fall

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• The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Winner, Drink

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• You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

  Dane Cook

  Running, Lazy, Use

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• You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Paper, Might

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• The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

  Noel Gallagher

  Mean, Oasis, Giving

  "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. August 21, 2005.

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• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Done, Might

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Games, Violent

  "Bombing Our Illusions". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.

  Boy George

  New York, Night, Thinking

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• There was no glam squad, whatsoever. There were no dressing rooms. There were no bathrooms. Let's start at our base level. We didn't have toilet paper. We went to the woods to use the bathroom.

  Katie Aselton

  Squad, Woods, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

  Andy Warhol

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Taken, Thinking, Civilization

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Judas Unchained”, p.906, Pan Macmillan

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