Pipe Quotes - Page 3

• The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

  George Sand

  Glory, Smoke

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• "One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"

  Iain Banks

  Jobs, Children, Law

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

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• My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Media, Scratches, Assets

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• I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Great Love, Bed

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go.

  Opal Whiteley

  Dream, Song, Wind

  Opal Whiteley “The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, Lulu.com

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• My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

  Saul

  Real, Names, Tribes

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• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

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• For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Order, Tunes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.69

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• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Night, Air, Wind

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Play, Sensual

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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• I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

  Tom Baker

  Wall, Rain, Cutting

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• I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.

  Janet Morris

  Psychics, Clearing

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• Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.

  William Allingham

  Song, Morning, Waiting

  William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”

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• [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Lying, Artist

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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• Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.196, Zola Books

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• Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

  Kofi Annan

  Dream, Relief, Debt

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Women, Water, Religion

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• The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Dream, Teacher, Jobs

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• I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

  David Lynch

  Men, People, Waste

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• To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lonely, Memories, Life And Love

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• When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

  Dale Chihuly

  Life, Positive, Night

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• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

  William O. Douglas

  Teacher, Jobs, Fear

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• The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

  Vincent Starrett

  Color, Yesterday, History

  "Persons from Porlock: And Other Interruptions".

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• It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

  Peter Roskam

  Dream, Thinking, Bills

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