Tubs Quotes

• Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

  Jane Smiley

  Reading, Sound, Hot

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• True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.104

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• I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

  Shania Twain

  Sexy, Air, Skins

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

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• Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Philosophy, Hands

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• Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

  Francis Quarles

  Thrones, Found

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.106

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• I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big tub of popcorn and a Coke. That's definitely a guilty pleasure because I can't be doing that all the time.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Popcorn, Coke, Guilty

  "Que Sera, Sanaa!". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. September 8, 2011.

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• A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!

  Paul Gauguin

  Degas, Chaste

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

  E. M. Forster

  War, Mean, Self

  "Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.

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• Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

  Michael Cunningham

  Stars, Silly, Moving

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.198, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Ben & Jerry's is an indulgent dessert that should be eaten in moderation. You should not be replacing more than one meal a day with ice cream. We do not consider a pint or a tub of ice cream to be a single serving.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Ice Cream, Meals, Dessert

  Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

  John Updike

  Errors, Mirrors, Perspective

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• Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Potatoes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

  Brian Austin Green

  Thinking, Incense, Wow

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• You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.

  Keith Carradine

  Nice, Hot, Actors

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• Oh definitely. It'll be in a hot tub, with my entire head squeezed into a jet. The photos are going to be hilarious. Man, I really hope the internet sticks around so people can reference this article in my obituaries and see that what sounds like a joke was actually amazingly prescient.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Men, People, Sound

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• I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

  Don Henley

  Blessed, Voice, Sitting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.

  Neve Campbell

  Home, Dancing, Trying

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• You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Baby, Pain

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• What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Blessing, Water, Buckets

  Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food crops there is more protein in the leafy parts than in the seeds or tubs that are usually harvested.

  Norman Pirie

  Yield, Giving, Facts

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• It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

  Claudette Colbert

  Fall, Years, Figures

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• I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, League, Needs

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• Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

  Amy Bloom

  Sex, Mind, Burning

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• The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shoes, Contentment, Income

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