Pipe Quotes - Page 7

• I long to create something
  that can't be used to keep us passive:
  I want to write
  a script about plumbing, how every pipe
  is joined
  to every other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knowledge, Writing, Long

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.405, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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• Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

  Dennis McKenna

  Faces, Cups, Lips

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Yield, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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• The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fire, Tsa, Knives

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Hands, Spy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

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• "Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Words Of Wisdom, Mind

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4921, Delphi Classics

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• The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Color, Legs, Furniture

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

  George Gissing

  Cigar, Hours, Vacuity

  George Gissing (1962). “George Gissing's Commonplace Book: A Manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library”

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• If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Men, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• It's a big deal about whether or not gays can march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and I have to say that on some level I kind of see their point. Because when you think about it, it is a real macho heterosexual event. Bunch of guys in short skirts on a cart made of rose pedals sharing a bag pipe. That's not for sissies.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Real, Gay, Thinking

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• If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.

  Wes Jackson

  Environmental, Cost, Voiceless

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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• The value of content seems to get higher as the number of distribution pipes increases. The more distribution companies that want to be the top choice of consumers, the more they will pay for the content.

  Wyc Grousbeck

  Numbers, Choices, Getting High

  "NBA Owner Reflects on a Changing Landscape". Interview with Sharon Terlep, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

  Paul Bowles

  Artist, Clay, Gertrude

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Years, Civilization

  Source: www.today.com

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• I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

  Nick Goepper

  Backyards, Slopes

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• My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.

  James McBride

  New York, Father, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

  Julio Cortazar

  Clay, Soap Bubbles, Stories

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• Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Trying, Boards

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• The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Running, Mean, Air

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

  Edward Norton

  Tongue, Salesman, Cheeks

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

  Laura Benanti

  Mean

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Years, Play

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• A Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a car. He burned his mouth on the exhaust pipe!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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