Sewers Quotes

• "Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

  Tom Lehrer

  Positive Thinking, Life Is Like, Trying

  "Introduction to 'We Will All Go Together When We Go'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

  John Madden

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• My faith is the only thing that never fails me.

  Hayley Williams

  Education, Wags, Failing

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• The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

  Ben Elton

  Book, Ignorance, Keys

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• They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Crush, Hurt, Islands

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.67, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Science, Government

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• An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, New York, Cities

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• Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Drug, Junk, Clients

  Naked Lunch (1959)

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• We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Scratches, Dignity

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• Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

  Charlie Munger

  Next Steps, Moral, Easy

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• Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

  David Letterman

  Retirement, Gun, Gentleman

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• Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

  Tertullian

  Temples, Christian Women, Built

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• Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Corporations, Good Job

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• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Pride, Men

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• To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

  Charlie Munger

  Derivatives, Insult, Accounting

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• God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  God, Atheism, Flow

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• Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

  William Hazlitt

  Nice, Noses, Filth

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.294

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• I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.

  George Carlin

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Spring, Rivers, Gold

  Writing about Manchester in 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 2 July

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• A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

  Victor Hugo

  Cynic

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.858, Wordsworth Editions

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• Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Drama, Heart, Age

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Rivers, Community, Balance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1001, Best Books on

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• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

  Mike Rowe

  Rivers, San Francisco, Guy

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