Garrelts Plumbing Quotes & Sayings

It's very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms. — Amartya Sen

Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop. — Flann O'Brien

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian. — Alfred Richard Orage

People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper. — George Lois

History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history. — Edward Hallett Carr

I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the idea of it the way you blow a dying fire. — Jardine Libaire

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss

California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire. — Ian Hecox

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I like to be able to connect with people. And that's how I connect, right away. I like to really talk to somebody. To me, it makes my night more interesting. — Dov Davidoff

Squeaker and the Colonel were aware that death had visited them in their home, she'd come swaggering in on spike heels, and with a big noise had removed one of their number, from the world of the living to that other place where all one's batteries were run down flat and the light behind one's button eyes went out. — K.W. Jeter

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay. — Alan Cumming

Few things rival the torment of the once-famous actor, the fallen politician or, as Tocqueville might have remarked, the unsuccessful American. — Alain De Botton