Toilets Quotes - Page 7

• Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

  Cory Doctorow

  Advice, Benefits, Clean

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Makers”, p.345, Booklassic

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• Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

  Sxip Shirey

  Song, Art, Writing

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• The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women.

  Narendra Modi

  Requirements, Dignity, Provision

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

  Ilana Mercer

  Destiny, Attachment, Ideas

  "Coddling Killers". spectator.org. December 29, 2004.

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• A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

  Sarah Kane

  Girl, Fighting, Sour Milk

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.185, A&C Black

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• Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble? Rochelle's gotten up; she's banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one's in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. "What do you need this time of night?" Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. "A tampon

  Patricia McCormick

  Moving, Night, Doors

  Patricia McCormick (2000). “Cut”, Front Street Incorporated

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• I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

  Andy Warhol

  Toilet Seat, Opening, Including

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

  Neal Shusterman

  Alive, Said, Flushing

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.

  Rick Riordan

  Plumbing

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.74, Penguin UK

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• An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dog, Sleep, Animal

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.329, Vintage

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• No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Past, Years, Innovation

  "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expands its sanitation programme" by Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.

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• It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Race, Mcdonalds

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• You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

  Kami Garcia

  Humorous, Crap

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• Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny, Men, Getting High

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• I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.

  Bill Mollison

  Moving, Fall, Air

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Science attacks our most cherished opinions. Opinions which come straight from our collective gut. Oh, wait, according to gastroenterologists, the only thing that comes from the gut is waste left from the digestion of food. That’s right, “waste.” I guess that means that scientists literally think our opinions should be flushed down the toilet!

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Thinking, Waiting

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• Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

  Frank Zappa

  Book, Use, Dropping

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• I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Events, Toilet Seat

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• Even if you have an ADA room, every disability is so different that people need different things. A lot of times they'll put something on the toilet to make it higher, and for someone transferring from their chair that's fine, but I transfer from the floor so it causes more problems.

  Zach Anner

  People, Different, Needs

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

  Ajahn Chah

  Party, Ideas, People

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• I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.

  Liam Neeson

  Sex, Wall, School

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said Deformed Mans Toilet, that kind of thing.

  David Henry Hwang

  Perfect, Kind, Shanghai

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• It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.

  Ben Schwartz

  Fall, Writing, Views

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• What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

  Julia Roberts

  Phones, Light, Relief

  "Julia Roberts praises co-star Clive Owen". www.rte.ie. March 9, 2009.

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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