Sewer Quotes
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Sewer Quotes & Sayings
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Life is like a sewer-you only get out of it what you put into it.
— Barry B. Longyear
Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)
— Stephen B. Pearl
But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer ...
— Michael Connelly
I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.
— Wallace Shawn
reminding her that even at ten- years-old, she had always been accepted in the sewer's inner circle
— S.R. Mallery
So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.
— David Letterman
He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge.
— Elvis Costello
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
— Victor Hugo
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
— Gordon Gee
State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.
— Charles Duhigg
He lived in two modes, the apparent and the veiled, and in two realms, the opera and the sewer, and he shuttled between them like a genie.
— Walter Kirn
He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.
— Casey Stengel
It was a chorus! A rain of garbage! A Rigoletto from the sewer, from the rancid gullet of the Bronx!
— Tom Wolfe
She wasn't fit to be a member of society. Her mind was a running sewer. The raunchiest teenager didn't think about sex as much as she did.
— Barbara Elsborg
The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.
— Robert Solow
Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.
— Bruce Friedrich
Oversized retail operations of the sort that are called "outlets" (as if they were sewer drains rather than shopping locations).
— Stephen King
We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.
— Robert Reich
She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.
— Ruth Rendell
I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.
— Nick Nolte
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
— Wilson Mizner
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
— John Madden
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
Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.
— Dane DeHaan
TO BE "THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it" was the primary function of the Crusades,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The sewer is the conscience of the city.
— Victor Hugo
If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.
— Geraldine Brooks
I was down in the sewer with some little lover.
— Bob Dylan
I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.
— Geri Halliwell
He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer.
— Larissa Ione
Sometimes it's good to be the smartest rat in the sewer.
— Michael Houbrick
That conversation ... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!
— Josemaria Escriva
As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
— Edward Norton
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
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.
— Theo Van Gogh
I bet their sewer is nicer than ours.
— Rick Riordan
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Note to self: When causing the sewer system of Manhattan to explode, do not stand underneath it.
— Rick Riordan
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
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
— Mark Twain
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
There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.
— David Letterman
As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.
— Edward Norton
The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.
— Iain M. Banks
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
— Tertullian
Ron Paul, who, as someone said, wouldn't have regulated a sewer pipe running through his child's playroom.
— Jane Smiley
History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
— Francis Ponge
The sea is the universal sewer.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
— Florynce Kennedy
Nobody ever oohs and aahs over wiring conduits and sewer lines.
— Ian Tregillis
Private Zombie, you have two seconds, exactly two seconds, to seal that sewer pipe posing as a mouth,
— Rick Yancey
I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.
— Orson Welles