Rude Plumber Quotes & Sayings

Among all the sutras I have expounded,
Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost!
If you are able to uphold the Lotus Sutra,
it means you are able to uphold the body of a Buddha!
(LS 11: 3.35)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 11, Section 3, Paragraph 35 — Gautama Buddha

I had no idea how one day could contain so much happiness and despair at once. — Betsy Cornwell

The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man. In his statement he emphasized that the act of choice was sufficient to justify it as a creative art. Placing it in such a way that its normal use was disguised caused a new reality for the object to be invented. To the criticism that it was rude he replied, logically enough,How could this object be acceptable when displayed in a plumber's shop window and yet be immoral anywhere else? — Neville Weston

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none. — Jerry Coleman

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are. — Montgomery Clift

Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become — Sunday Adelaja

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. — Etgar Keret

You can not stop you from being who you are. — Khaled Hosseini

Love isn't tested by how good it makes you feel. It's tested by whether you are brave enough to feel every part of it. — Ilie Ruby

Life is so quick that it's all played out at the gates of death, and the value of resolution is that it quickens life. — Mark Helprin

As for free will, there is such a narrow crack of it for man to move in, crushed as he is from birth by environment, heredity, time and event and local convention. If I had been born of Italian parents in one of the caves in the hills I would be a prostitute at the age of 12 or so because I had to live (why?) and that was the only way open. If I was born into a wealthy New York family with pseudo-cultural leanings, I would have had my coming-out party along with the rest of them, and be equipped with fur coats, social contacts, and a blase pout. How do I know? I don't; I can only guess. I wouldn't be I. But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of "I" that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratches on the paper ... I ... I ... I ... I ... I ... I. — Sylvia Plath

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. — Alexander Pope

She always wanted to believe in things. — Kazuo Ishiguro