Tubing Quotes

• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

  Stephen Fry

  Baby, Sorry, Breathing Life

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

  Jasper Johns

  Color, Names, Leaving

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoe, 1996.

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• What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Football, Boys, Rubber

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• I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

  Frank Miller

  Sin City, Wire, Cuffs

  "Sin City". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Oxygen, Talking

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• Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

  Jaco Pastorius

  Rehearsal, Next, Jazz

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• It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

  Alice Meynell

  Fashion, Strong, Stupid

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