#plumbing

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#electricity #fields #french #french people #generous

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#disposal #garbage #i #i do #out

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#carpentry #childhood #dancing #dreams #fantasy

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#blow #bulbs #chemistry #elementary #glass

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything. ↗

— Gary Locke

#consider #down #everything #guy #home

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#being #human #human being #ingenious #plumbing

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#ingenious #man #plumbing #portable

I would rather die than be a plumber, but thanks to lead I can do both. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #plumbing #funny

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor. ↗